Synonyms for subsist
səbˈsɪstsub·sist

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1. subsist

   Synonyms:
   be, live, feed, continue, exist

   Antonyms:
   fail, starve, decay, die

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1. exist, survive, live, subsistverb

   support oneself

   "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"

   Synonyms:
   go, exist, live, hold out, populate, be, experience, hold up, outlive, dwell, live on, come through, pull round, pull through, outlast, endure, inhabit, survive, know, make it, last

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1. subsistverb

   Synonyms:
   exist, be, live

2. subsistverb

   Synonyms:
   [rare.] remain, abide, continue

3. subsistverb

   Synonyms:
   be supported, obtain a livelihood, get a living

4. subsistverb

   Synonyms:
   feed, victual, ration, support, maintain

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1. Joseph Addison:

   Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

2. George Eliot:

   It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

3. The Supreme Court:

   The directions that have been passed by the National Green Tribunal by its judgment ... will continue to subsist and will be subject to the ultimate outcome of the appeal, as it stands today, the order of the NGT stays and has to be complied with by both the parties.

4. John Winthrop:

   Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

5. Samuel Johnson:

   Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.