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subsist 音标拼音: [səbs'ɪst] vt. 供给食物,供养
vi. 生存,存在 供给食物,供养生存,存在 subsist v 1: 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" [ synonym: { exist}, { survive}, { live}, { subsist}] Subsist \ Sub* sist"\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Subsisted}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Subsisting}.] [ L. subsistere to stand still, stay, remain alive; sub under sistere to stand, to cause to stand, from stare to stand: cf. F. subsister. See { Stand}.] 1. To be; to have existence; to inhere. [ 1913 Webster] And makes what happiness we justly call, Subsist not in the good of one, but all. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To continue; to retain a certain state. [ 1913 Webster] Firm we subsist, yet possible to swerve. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] To subsist on other men' s charity. -- Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster]
Subsist \ Sub* sist"\, v. t. To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one' s family. [ 1913 Webster] He laid waste the adjacent country in order to render it more difficult for the enemy to subsist their army. -- Robertson. [ 1913 Webster] 73 Moby Thesaurus words for " subsist": abide, be, be alive, be animate, be extant, be found, be in existence, be left, be met with, be present, be the case, be there, bide, breathe, carry on, continue, continue to be, cope, defeat time, defy time, draw breath, dwell, eke out, endure, exist, extend, fetch breath, get by, go on, happen to be, have being, have life, have place, hold, hold on, hold out, keep, keep afloat, keep on, last, last long, last out, live, live and breathe, live on, live through, maintain, make ends meet, make out, manage, move, obtain, occur, perdure, perennate, persist, prevail, remain, respire, rest, run, run on, scrape along, stand, stay, stay on, survive, sustain, tarry, tide over, walk the earth, wear, wear well
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