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Definition of Exist
1. Verb. Have an existence, be extant. "Is there a God?"
Specialized synonyms: Come, Preexist, Kick About, Kick Around, Knock About, Coexist, Indwell, Hold, Obtain, Prevail, Consist, Dwell, Lie, Lie In, Endanger, Imperil, Jeopardise, Jeopardize, Menace, Peril, Threaten, Flow, Distribute, Dwell, Inhabit
Derivative terms: Being, Existence, Existent, Existent, Existent
2. Verb. Support oneself. "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
Specialized synonyms: Breathe, Drift, Freewheel
Related verbs: Endure, Go, Hold Out, Hold Up, Last, Live, Live On, Survive
Derivative terms: Subsistence, Subsister, Survival
Definition of Exist
1. v. i. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
Definition of Exist
1. to be [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: be
Medical Definition of Exist
1. 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. Synonym: See Be. Origin: 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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