Usually means: Maintain life with basic necessities.
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  1. subsist: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. subsist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. subsist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. subsist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. subsist: Vocabulary.com
  6. subsist: Wordnik
  7. subsist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. subsist: Wiktionary
  9. subsist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. subsist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. subsist: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. subsist: Dictionary.com
  13. subsist: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Subsist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. subsist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. subsist: Rhymezone
  17. Subsist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. subsist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. subsist: Free Dictionary
  20. subsist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. subsist: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. subsist: Legal dictionary

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  1. subsist: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  To survive on a minimum of resources.
verb:  (chiefly philosophy) To have ontological reality; to exist.
verb:  To retain a certain state; to continue.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To supply sustenance or subsistence to or for.

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