All 6 Uses of
subsist
in
Into the Wild
- For that entire period he subsisted on nothing but five pounds of rice and what marine life he could pull from the sea, an experience that would later convince him he could survive on similarly meager rations in the Alaska bush.
p. 36..8subsisted = survived
- As if merely subsisting according to his self-imposed rules weren't strenuous enough, Rosellini also exercised compulsively whenever he wasn't occupied with foraging.
p. 74..9subsisting = surviving (without luxuries)
- A year earlier he'd subsisted for more than a month beside the Gulf of California on five pounds of rice and a bounty of fish caught with a cheap rod and reel, an experience that made him confident he could harvest enough food to survive an extended stay in the Alaska wilderness, too.
p. 162..2subsisted = survived
- Game was scarce, forcing Franklin and his men to subsist on lichens scraped from boulders, singed deer hide, scavenged animal bones, their own boot leather, and finally one another's flesh.
p. 180..8subsist = survive
- Living in the interior bush for an extended period, subsisting on nothing except what you hunt and gather, most people have no idea how hard that actually is.
p. 185..8subsisting = surviving
- After subsisting for three months on an exceedingly marginal diet, McCandless had run up a sizable caloric deficit.
p. 188..6 *subsisting = barely surviving
Definition:
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(subsist) to survive -- especially without being able to manage comforts or luxuries