exist

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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+ verb [V]
1 (not used in the progressive tenses) to be real; to be present in a place or situation: Does life exist on other planets? + The problem only exists in your head, Jane. + Few of these monkeys still exist in the wild. + A temple existed here hundreds of years ago.
2 ~ (on sth) to live, especially in a difficult situation or with very little money: We existed on a diet of rice and very little else. + They can't exist on the money he's earning.

Thesaurus dictionary

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v.

1 be, continue, prevail, endure, abide; live, breathe:

Some believe that the universe exists only in our imagination.

2 survive, subsist, eke out a living or an existence, stay alive, get by or along:

How can the family exist only on his pension?

3 occur, happen, be found, be present, remain, persist; obtain, prevail:

A two-foot gap exists between the wall and the roof. 'Status quo' refers to the circumstances that exist.

Collocation dictionary

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ADV.

actually, really

Do these creatures really exist?

| already, still

Few of these monkeys still exist in the wild.

| currently | independently

He argued that ideas do not exist independently of the language that expresses them.

VERB + EXIST

be known to

the enormous volcanoes now known to exist on Mars

| continue to | cease to

Concise English dictionary

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exists|existed|existingɪg'zɪst
verb
+have an existence, be extant
+support oneself