About The Word Exist
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Exist
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What's The Definition Of Exist?
[v] have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?"
[v] 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 | Synonyms for Exist: be | live | subsist | survive Related Terms | Find terms related to Exist: abide | abide in | Be | be alive | be animate | be coextensive with | be comprised in | be constituted by | be contained in | be extant | be found | be in existence | be located | be met with | be present | be present in | be situated | be the case | be there | bide | breathe | carry on | consist in | continue | continue to be | defeat time | defy time | draw breath | dwell | dwell in | endure | exist in | extend | fetch breath | get along | get by | go on | happen | happen to be | have being | have life | have place | hold | hold on | hold out | indwell | inhabit | inhere | inhere in | keep | keep on | last | last long | last out | lie | lie in | live | live and breathe | live on | live through | maintain | move | obtain | occur | perdure | perennate | persist | prevail | remain | repose in | reside | reside in | respire | rest in | run | run on | stand | stay | stay on | subsist | subsist in | survive | sustain | tarry | tide over | walk the earth | wear | wear well See Also | belong | breathe | coexist | come | consist | drift | dwell | endanger | flow | freewheel | hold | imperil | indwell | jeopardise | jeopardize | kick about | kick around | knock about | lie | lie in | menace | obtain | peril | preexist | prevail | threaten Exist In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*ist"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Existed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Existing}.] [L. existere, exsistere, to step out or forth,
emerge, appear, exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to
set, put, place, stand still, fr. stare to stand: cf. F.
exister. See {Stand}.]
1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or
real being, whether material or spiritual.
Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never
did exist. --Swift.
To conceive the world . . . to have existed from
eternity. --South.
2. To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great
evils existed in his reign.
3. To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as,
men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.
Syn: See {Be}.
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