tolerate
Other forms: tolerated; tolerating; tolerates
The verb tolerate means "to put up with or allow." You can tolerate your sister's love of Broadway musicals but really, you prefer dramas.
Think of tolerate as the open-minded verb. It means you allow something to happen or exist, even if you don't really like it. For example, you don't like your neighbor's loud music but you tolerate because he only blasts it on Saturday afternoons. Scientifically speaking, when your body can tolerate a drug, poison or even pollution, it means you aren't harmed by it.
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put up with something or somebody unpleasant“he learned to tolerate the heat”
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suffer
experience (emotional) pain
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accept, live with, swallow
tolerate or accommodate oneself to
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hold still for, stand for
tolerate or bear
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bear up
endure cheerfully
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take lying down
suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively
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take a joke
listen to a joke at one's own expense
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sit out
endure to the end
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pay
bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action
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get one's lumps, take one's lumps
suffer the results or consequences of one's behavior or actions
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type of:
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allow, countenance, let, permit
consent to, give permission
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suffer
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allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting
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have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition
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recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others)
/ˌtɑləˈreɪt/
/ˈtɒləreɪt/
Vocabulary lists containing tolerate
When twelve-year-old Sophie Brown moves from a California city to a farm her dad has inherited, she is determined to learn how to raise the chickens she finds. Here's a link to our collection for the sequel: Are You Ready to Hatch an Unusual Chicken?.
Eleven-year-old Louisa doesn't love change but explores new ways of looking at life when she visits her grandparents' farm on Deer Island and meets a boy named George.
Following the death of their parents, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are sent to live with Count Olaf, who plots to steal their inheritance.
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