Tolerate
['tɒləreɪt] or ['tɑləret]
Definition
(verb.) 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'.
(verb.) recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others); 'We must tolerate the religions of others'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Permit (as something unpleasant), allow, admit, indulge, receive.[2]. Suffer, endure, abide, brook, put up with, bear with, take patiently or easily.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Suffer, allow, permit, admit, bear, endure
ANT:repel, disallow, prohibit, repudiate, reject, resist
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Examples
- They were prepared to tolerate his rule if they themselves might also be monarchs of their lands and businesses and trades and what not. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mr Podsnap could tolerate taste in a mushroom man who stood in need of that sort of thing, but was far above it himself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We can tolerate the Oracle very easily, but we have a poet and a good-natured enterprising idiot on board, and they do distress the company. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- On the plea of the man being Cyril Hall's friend and Robert Moore's brother, we'll just tolerate his existence; won't we, Cary? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I can imagine, that before she had seen any body superior, she might tolerate him. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Emma's only surprize was that Jane Fairfax should accept those attentions and tolerate Mrs. Elton as she seemed to do. Jane Austen. Emma.
- He took pains to prove that he only just tolerated me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But for their usefulness in partially cleansing these terrible streets, they would not be tolerated long. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This man would not have been tolerated at Melton, but that Brummell once said he used good perfume. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She is the daughter of a heathen old man named Betteredge--long, too long, tolerated in my aunt's family. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- This graver world of 1920 does seem to be awakening to the truth that there are realities worth seeking and evils not to be tolerated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Archer's New York tolerated hypocrisy in private relations; but in business matters it exacted a limpid and impeccable honesty. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Honest mistakes may be tolerated, but not carelessness, incompetence, or lack of attention to business. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Such liberality argued in the father's eyes profound indifference--who tolerates all, he reasonedcan be attached to none. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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