Existing: alternatives and connections

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

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Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

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Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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of Be

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of Be

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The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existe…

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The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existe…

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Standing out or above any surface; protruded.

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Standing out or above any surface; protruded.

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Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.