Comport
[kəm'pɔːt]
Definition
(v. i.) To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.
(v. i.) To agree; to accord; to suit; -- sometimes followed by with.
(v. t.) To bear; to endure; to brook; to put with.
(v. t.) To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun.
(n.) Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment.
Typed by Hannah
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Agree, accord, harmonize, tally, correspond, square, fall in, chime in.
Edited by Harold
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Demean, conduct, carry, behove, tally, consist, harmonize, match, agree, suit,coincide
ANT:{[isdt'iiieau]?}, misconduct, forget, {[mary]?}, differ, disagree, contrast,militate
Checker: Sheena
Definition
v.i. to agree suit (with).—v.t. to bear one's self: to behave.—n. manner of acting.—ns. Comport′ance (Spens.); Comport′ment behaviour.
Typed by Edwina
Examples
- I do not know how I would comport myself. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Help me, O Lord, tomorrow to comport myself as a man should in his last hours. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Walking in the dark alone he felt much better from having prayed and he was sure, now, that he would comport himself well. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Help me, O Lord, to comport myself as a man tomorrow in the day of battle. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And I had also noticed that his shabby trappings but illy comported with his dignified and noble bearing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I do not say that he was a coward because he comported himself very well, Pilar went on. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Listen, gypsy, thou hast comported thyself well today. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Editor: Mary