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, subsist, 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. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

   The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.

2. Andres Romero:

   We devote all possible resources to the animals since they are born until they die so they subsist and have a good life.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.