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verb-intransitive. To exist; be.

verb-intransitive. To remain or continue in existence.

verb-intransitive. To maintain life; live: subsisted on one meal a day.

verb-intransitive. To be logically conceivable.

v. To maintain or support with provisions.

v. To survive on a minimum of resources.

verb-intransitive. To be; to have existence; to inhere.

verb-intransitive. To continue; to retain a certain state.

verb-intransitive. To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live.

v. To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain.

To remain; continue; abide; retain the existing state.

To have continued existence; exist.

To be maintained; be supported; live.

To inhere; have existence by means of something else.

To keep in existence.

To feed; maintain; support with provisions.

v. support oneself

"Sometimes a man will labour for weeks and months in unproductive ground, following up a small vein in the hope of its leading into a good lode, and making so little by his hard toil that on pay day of each month he is compelled to ask his employer for "subsist" -- or a small advance of money -- to enable him to live and go on with his work."

subsisted    subsisting    subsists   

subsistent    subsistence   

freewheel    breathe    drift   

continue    live    feed    maintain    be    consist    inhere    prevail    apply    liven   

Liszt    assist    cist    coexist    consist    cyst    delist    desist    dismissed    enlist