Subsist Synonyms

səb-sĭst
To have being or actuality
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. be
  2. exist
To have reality or life
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. live
  2. be
  3. exist
  4. breathe
  5. survive
  6. stay alive
  7. remain alive
  8. scrape-by
  9. get along
  10. feed on
  11. continue
  12. endure
  13. go-it-alone
  14. eke out an existence
  15. maintain
  16. live-on
  17. manage
  18. barely exist
  19. remain
  20. stay
  21. support
  22. sustain
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To maintain existence in a certain way
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. feed
  2. live

Words Related to Subsist

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. ingestion
  2. servitude
  3. have effect

Subsist Sentence Examples

  • It marks the relations which subsist between all members of the plant world, including those between existing groups and those which are known only from their fossilized remains preserved in the rocks.

  • Sheep and goats, which subsist more easily on scanty pasturage, are relatively more numerous, the total number being calculated at 700,000.

  • Besides the sedentary Cirripedia, numbers of the smaller forms, especially among the Entomostraca, subsist on floating particles of organic matter swept within reach of the jaws by the movements of the other limbs.

  • The country was studded thickly with burgi(small forts) and clausurae (long walls), the ruins of which still subsist.

  • This was accomplished by a series of constitutions known as the " Fifty Decisions" (Quinquaginta decisiones), along with which there were published other ordinances amending the law in a variety of points, in which old and now inconvenient rules had been suffered to subsist.

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