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survival suit

survival suit noun: synonym of immersion suit.

Noun

survival suit (plural survival suits)

  1. Synonym of immersion suit.
    • Throughout the voyage we wore watertight survival suits first designed for use by the U.S. Navy fighter pilots.1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 588
    • The captain did a safety drill. This covered where the emergency position-indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) was located, how to make a mayday call, and where the fire extinguishers were. A crew member demonstrated how to put on an immersion suit. These survival suits are waterproof full-body garments...2025 October 21, Rose George, “‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    immersion suit

Synonyms of survival suit

Forms of survival suit

pluralsurvival suits

Questions about survival suit

What does survival suit mean?
Survival suit means synonym of immersion suit.
What part of speech is survival suit?
Survival suit is a noun.
What is the plural of survival suit?
The plural of survival suit is survival suits.

Words near survival suit in the dictionary

  1. survival rifle
  2. survival rifles
  3. survival sex
  4. survival statute
  5. survival statutes
  6. survival suit
  7. survival suits
  8. survival time
  9. survival times
  10. survival weapon
  11. survival weapons

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