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Answer for the clue "Put up with ", 8 letters:
tolerate
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Word definitions for tolerate in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, of authorities, "to allow without interference," from Latin toleratus , past participle of tolerare (see toleration ). Related: Tolerated ; tolerating .\n
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB barely ▪ When not in exile, Stevanovic remained a barely tolerated nonperson at home, decidedly unwelcome in public. ▪ I did not understand her, and she could barely tolerate me. ▪ In private, they barely tolerated ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. 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" [syn: digest ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference.
Usage examples of tolerate.
But it seems likely that such a plan of private ownership would not be tolerated under a Socialist government, for, first of all, a very large number of Socialists are opposed to such a plan, and, secondly, the political actionists who have favored it either have sacrificed thereby the principles of their party, or else by advocating the private ownership of small farms, have done so with the intention of deceiving farmers and small land owners in order to win their votes.
Most babies can tolerate hunger only in small doses before they cry out.
That the Baptist would tolerate them perplexed John greatly, but he put away such thoughts for the present.
He must have been an elderly boffin of great courtesy and patience to tolerate darn fool questions at this hour of the night.
He had budded into a happy family, spent his childhood in a friendly and peaceful society, lapped in the warmth of a general approval, a society filled with immutable hierarchies that tucked every hatchling and every budling into a niche it would never quite break out of no matter what it did or felt, but also a society that accepted it without reservations, that cherished it and tolerated its rebellions, its idiosyncrasies.
Since then, since the pair he saved had run home and sang the story in a quickly constructed cavatina to stress its truth, Judah has been tolerated.
When Bonaparte was the chief of the French Republic he had no objection to the existence of a Batavian Republic in the north of France, and he equally tolerated the Cisalpine Republic in the south.
I could not imagine how such a monstrous establishment could be tolerated, for it was almost impossible, under the circumstances, for the poor girls to get a husband.
Brigante rightly belonged to Evanescent and her kind, and that they tolerated the Terran colonists for amusement.
Net Force ops tended to think of regular feebs as dweebs--to be tolerated, but avoided as much as possible.
Wheat, I gather, is tolerated only grudgingly, deemed spiritually unworthy but somehow necessary: it undergoes a rigorous fivefold sifting and tenfold milling, accompanied by special meditations, before it is made into bread.
If words are invented for these myriad hedonic delights, then people will talk about them and enjoy them -- a turn of events which Christian-Marxist hive establishments could not tolerate.
These days, it was the only food I could tolerate besides Jiffy Pop popcorn.
The persecuted and yet singularly tolerated Bravo, was slowly pacing the flags on his way to the appointed place, unwilling to anticipate the moment, when a laquais thrust a paper into his hand, and disappeared as fast as legs would carry him.
No question, he was allowing us more leeway with a case against a woman than he would tolerate in a case against a man.