Thesaurus: exist

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1. v. i. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
2. v. i. To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.
3. v. i. To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.
4. v. have an existence, be extant
5. v. support oneself
6. 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. Syn. -- See Be.
7. v:100 v. have an existence, be extant v. support oneself