exist
/ɪɡˈzɪst/ verb A2- to be; have existence; have being or reality
Plural exist · He/she/it exists · Past existed · Past participle existed · -ing form existing
Verb forms
- Base form
- exist
- He/she/it
- exists
- Past
- existed
- Past participle
- existed
- -ing form
- existing
From the library
“He did; saying at the same time, ‘You see I thus destroy the only proof existing against you.’”
And what worried Matthew was that the difference impressed him as being something that should not exist.
I wonder how I ever existed there so long.
“The treasure I speak of really exists, and I offer to sign an agreement with you, in which I promise to lead you to the spot where you shall dig; and if I deceive you, bring me here again,—I ask no more.”
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