verb
stay alive, remain alive, scrape by, get along, feed on, be, go it alone, eke out an existence, live on, barely exist; see also live 4.
See subsist in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
To have being or actuality:
To have reality or life:
To maintain existence in a certain way:
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