Abide
[ə'baɪd]
Definition
(v. i.) To wait; to pause; to delay.
(v. i.) To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place.
(v. i.) To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain.
(v. t.) To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time.
(v. t.) To endure; to sustain; to submit to.
(v. t.) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with.
(v. t.) To stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for.
Edited by Glenn
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Stay, sojourn, tarry, lodge, rest, keep, take up one's quarters, pitch one's tent.[2]. Dwell, reside, live, inhabit, settle, plant one's self, get a footing, get a foothold.[3]. Remain, continue, persist, persevere, SUBSIST, go on, keep on, be steadfast, be constant.[4]. Endure, bear.
v. a. [1]. Await, attend, wait for, be in readiness for, be in store for.[2]. Endure, tolerate, bear, brook, suffer, bear with, put up with.
Edited by Griffith
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Dwell, stay, inhabit, continue, rest, tarry, lodge, reside, live, wait,sojourn, remain, expect, endure, tolerate, anticipate, confront, await, bear,face, watch
ANT:Deport, migrate, move, journey, proceed, resist, mislike, forefend, avoid,shun, reject, abandon, forfeit
Checked by Judith
Definition
v.t. (Shak. and Milton) to redeem pay the penalty for suffer.
v.t. to bide or wait for: to endure: to tolerate.—v.i. to remain in a place dwell or stay:—pa.t. and pa.p. abōde′.—n. Abid′ance.—adj. Abid′ing continual.—n. an enduring.—adv. Abid′ingly.
Checked by Gardner
Examples
- Now that he had reached a cooler moment he would have preferred a less hasty marriage; but the card was laid, and he determined to abide by the game. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I thank you, reverend father, but will abide by your first offer, as I see Malkin is already led forth to the gate. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I married a poor woman, and am content to abide by what I have done. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But I cannot, I will not, longer abide with thee. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I can't abide to see her reading to herself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Yes, my boy, I'm sorry for you, now; it's a bad case--very bad; but the apostle says, 'Let everyone abide in the condition in which he is called. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- If you don't--it's a fine, law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman within hail. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- If only Birkin would form a close and abiding connection with her, she would be safe during this fretful voyage of life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This insight into the values of human life, partial though it be, is what constitutes the abiding monument of Plato's genius. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The sanctuary was not a permanent abiding-place, but a kind of criminal Pickford's. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It lasted only a short time, but its memory was abiding. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But with the Mino, it is the desire to bring this female cat into a pure stable equilibrium, a transcendent and abiding RAPPORT with the single male. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Strange that this impression so abides by Twemlow after being corrected, yet so it is. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In stipulating for it, he had been impelled by a feeling little short of desperation, and the feeling abided by him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mrs. Clements punctually informed Lady Glyde of her place of abode. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Vice,' said the surgeon, replacing the curtain, 'takes up her abode in many temples; and who can say that a fair outside shell not enshrine her? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- She had heard nothing of him since her leaving London, nothing new of his plans, nothing certain even of his present abode. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I alighted at Perdita's ancient abode, her cottage; and, sending forward the carriage, determined to walk across the park to the castle. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- We know how little there is to tempt anyone to our humble abode. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy City merchants, we found the sculpture works for which we searched. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Editor: Stacy