Exist
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intransitive verb.
To have actual being; be real.
intransitive verb.
To have life; live.
intransitive verb.
To live at a minimal level; subsist.
intransitive verb.
To continue to be; persist.
intransitive verb.
To be present under certain circumstances or in a specified place; occur.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To have actual being of any kind; actually be at a certain moment or throughout a certain period of time.
Hence To live; continue to have life or animation: as, men cannot
exist
without air, nor fishes without water.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
intransitive verb.
To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
intransitive verb.
To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be.
intransitive verb.
To live; to have life or the functions of vitality.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
verb.
to
be
; have
existence
; have being or
reality
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verb.
have an existence, be extant
verb.
support oneself