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To put up with

Put \Put\ (put; often p[u^]t in def. 3), v. i.

  1. To go or move; as, when the air first puts up. [Obs.]
    --Bacon.

  2. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

    His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
    --Dryden.

  3. To play a card or a hand in the game called put. To put about (Naut.), to change direction; to tack. To put back (Naut.), to turn back; to return. ``The French . . . had put back to Toulon.'' --Southey. To put forth.

    1. To shoot, bud, or germinate. ``Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth.''
      --Bacon.

    2. To leave a port or haven, as a ship. --Shak. To put in (Naut.), to enter a harbor; to sail into port. To put in for.

      1. To make a request or claim; as, to put in for a share of profits.

      2. To go into covert; -- said of a bird escaping from a hawk.

    3. To offer one's self; to stand as a candidate for. --Locke. To put off, to go away; to depart; esp., to leave land, as a ship; to move from the shore. To put on, to hasten motion; to drive vehemently. To put over (Naut.), to sail over or across. To put to sea (Naut.), to set sail; to begin a voyage; to advance into the ocean. To put up.

      1. To take lodgings; to lodge.

      2. To offer one's self as a candidate. --L'Estrange. To put up to, to advance to. [Obs.] ``With this he put up to my lord.'' --Swift. To put up with.

        1. To overlook, or suffer without recompense, punishment, or resentment; as, to put up with an injury or affront.

        2. To take without opposition or expressed dissatisfaction; to endure; as, to put up with bad fare.

Usage examples of "to put up with".

We simply are more or less used to the strange behavior of others and try to put up with it with as little friction as possible.

There's not enough profit to be made from your sordid little hellhole to put up with the crap your people dish out, let alone risk my cargo shuttles and my crew to a bunch of wild-eyed lunatics.

If you are daft enough to put up with degeneracy in your own kind for centuries or millennia on end, that is your affair.