subsist
- IPA[səbˈsist]
美式
- maintain or support oneself, especially at a minimal level；provide sustenance for
verb: subsist, 3rd person present: subsists, gerund or present participle: subsisting, past tense: subsisted, past participle: subsisted
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. maintain or support oneself, especially at a minimal level thousands of refugees subsist on international handouts 同義詞
- ▪ archaic provide sustenance for the problem of subsisting the poor in a period of high bread prices
- 2. remain in being, force, or effect the court may treat a contract as still subsisting the peace subsisted between 1303 and 1324 同義詞
- ▪ be attributable to the effect of genetic maldevelopment may subsist in chromosomal mutation 同義詞
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- IPA[səbˈsɪst]
英式
- maintain or support oneself, especially at a minimal level: he subsisted on welfare and casual labour
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