digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up
(verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant; “I cannot bear his constant criticism”; “The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks”; “he learned to tolerate the heat”; “She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage”
allow, permit, tolerate
(verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting; “We don’t allow dogs here”; “Children are not permitted beyond this point”; “We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital”
tolerate
(verb) have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition; “The patient does not tolerate the anti-inflammatory drugs we gave him”
tolerate
(verb) recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others); “We must tolerate the religions of others”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tolerate (third-person singular simple present tolerates, present participle tolerating, simple past and past participle tolerated)
To accept hardship without objection.
Synonyms: accept, bear, brook, endure, live with, put up with, Thesaurus:tolerate
• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing).
Source: Wiktionary
Tol"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tolerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Tolerating.] Etym: [L. toleratus, p.p. of tolerare, fr. the same root as tollere to lift up, tuli, used as perfect of ferre to bear, latus (for tlatus), used as p.p. of ferre to bear, and E. thole. See Thole, and cf. Atlas, Collation, Delay, Elate, Extol, Legislate, Oblate, Prelate, Relate, Superlative, Talent, Toll to take away, Translate.]
Definition: To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices. Crying should not be tolerated in children. Locke. We tolerate them because property and liberty, to a degree, require that toleration. Burke.
Syn.
– See Permit.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
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