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verb (v)

• support oneself(verb.stative)

  Example:
  Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day.
  

  Synonym:
  exist, live, survive
  

  source: wordnet30
• To be; to have existence; to inhere.(verb)

  source: webster1913
• To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one's family.(verb)

  source: webster1913