tolerate

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verb

1. put up with something or somebody unpleasant (Freq. 7)
- 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, endure, stick out, stomach, bear,
stand, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up
• Derivationally related forms:
sufferance (for: suffer), abidance (for: abide), tolerant, toleration, tolerance, bearable (for: bear), endurance (for: endure)
• Hypernyms:
permit, allow, let, countenance
• Hyponyms:
accept, live with, swallow, stand for, hold still for,
bear up, take lying down, take a joke, sit out, pay
• Verb Group:
suffer
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s PP (for: put up)
- Sam cannot tolerate Sue
2. recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others)
- We must tolerate the religions of others
• Derivationally related forms:
tolerant, toleration
• Hypernyms:
respect, honor, honour, abide by, observe
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
3. 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
• Topics:
medicine, medical specialty
• Hypernyms:
suffer, endure
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
4. 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
• Syn:
allow, permit
• Derivationally related forms:
permissive (for: permit), permit (for: permit), allowance (for: allow)
• Hypernyms:
permit, allow, let, countenance
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  allow, permit