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subsist
[suhb-sist]
verb (used without object)
to exist; continue in existence.
to remain alive; live, as on food, resources, etc.
to have existence in, or by reason of, something.
to reside, lie, or consist (usually followed byin ).
Philosophy.
to have timeless or abstract existence, as a number, relation, etc.
to have existence, especially independent existence.
verb (used with object)
to provide sustenance or support for; maintain.
subsist
/ səbˈsɪst /
verb
(often foll by on) to be sustained; manage to live
to subsist on milk
to continue in existence
(foll by in) to lie or reside by virtue (of); consist
philosophy
to exist as a concept or relation rather than a fact
to be conceivable
obsolete, (tr) to provide with support
Other Word Forms
- subsistent adjective
- subsister noun
- subsistingly adverb
- presubsist verb (used without object)
- self-subsisting adjective
- supersubsist verb (used without object)
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of subsist1
Example Sentences
Back before California was settled by Europeans and others, the Miwok and Nisenan subsisted on a hunter-gatherer diet of acorns, venison, salmon, pine nuts, elderberries, and other berries and plants.
The only survivor is his younger sister, Nezuko, who has been turned into an oni, a carnivorous demon who usually subsists on a diet of humans and is averse to sunlight.
Yet the text’s unhurried recollections reflect its content: “Homework” feels leisurely as if to reflect the functional, socialist-adjacent government that allows its characters to subsist.
When you subsist on crumbs for long enough, you learn to make a meal out of them.
Many of them eat only one meal a day and subsist on high energy biscuits given by the charity, she said.
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