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Another word for subsist

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Verb

  1. To have being or actuality

    See also:

    be

  2. To have reality or life

    See also:

    be

  3. To maintain existence in a certain way

    See also:

    ingestion

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Another word for subsist

Verb
  1. See also:

    live

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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.

  • - The relations which subsist between the various Syriac versions remain to be discussed.

  • of the day, but the relations which subsist between the Old Syriac, the Diatessaron and the Peshito are a more difficult question.

  • For months together a Ruman will subsist on vegetables and mamaliga, the maize porridge that forms his staple diet.

  • The people came to subsist almost entirely on potatoes and herrings; and in 1846, when the potato blight began its ravages, nearly universal destitution ensued - embracing, over the islands generally, 70% of the inhabitants.

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