Meaning & use
Subsisted
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Survived or maintained oneself, typically at a minimal level and often on limited resources.
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The settlers subsisted mainly on dried fish and stored grain through the long winter.
For years the family subsisted on his modest factory wages alone.
A note on using this word
'Subsisted' implies a bare, often precarious level of survival, distinguishing it from words like 'lived' or 'thrived,' which carry no such connotation of scarcity.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
thrivedflourished
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