exist

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exist is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
exercise - exist - expect

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Plain form
exist

Third-person singular
exists

Past tense
existed

Past participle
existed

Present participle
existing

Exist is on the Academic Vocabulary List.
  1. (intransitive) If something exist, it is real and has some kind of being.
    Dinosaurs used to exist.
    She thinks that aliens do not exist.
    Your ideas only exist in your mind.
    There exists a possibility that we will win.

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