subsist
IPA: sʌbsˈɪst
verb
- To survive on a minimum of resources.
- (chiefly philosophy) To have ontological reality; to exist.
- To retain a certain state; to continue.
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Examples of "subsist" in Sentences
- He subsisted in the cemetery.
- I subsisted on the local economy.
- The government provides subsistence.
- His tomb was subsist in the cemetery.
- A forager subsists largely upon insects.
- Fishing is the primary means of subsistence.
- The Miyana subsist by fishing and agriculture.
- The agricultural and cattle productions are of subsistence.
- The majority of the population survives on subsistence farming.
- The inhabitants of the town lived from subsistence agriculture.
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