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tolerate
verb as in allow, indulge
Strong matches
admit, authorize, bear, go, have, hear, humor, pocket, receive, sanction, stand, stomach, suffer, sustain, swallow, take, undergo
Weak matches
bear with, blink at, consent to, go along with, live with, put up with, sit and take it, sit still for, stay the course, string along, submit to, tough out, wink at
Example Sentences
“The US cannot tolerate the idea of any rival economic entity,” Stone writes.
He also wrote, “Torture is not a thing that we can tolerate.”
Revisions went back and forth for weeks before Caro finally signed off on versions he could tolerate.
Should she leave her husband and endure loneliness or tolerate his dalliance and keep a companion for old age?
Why tolerate toxicity in a powerful sphere of modern life that has the potential to—and does—benefit so many?
I cannot believe that a good God would create or tolerate a Devil, nor that he would allow the Devil to tempt man.
Her left knee was supported on pillows, and the bed-clothes were raised away from it, for it could tolerate no weight whatever.
But if the "great public" will only tolerate one as a pupil long enough, eventually, one must succeed.
An ear accustomed to the fine tone of a good violin will not now tolerate a bad piano-forte.
But I would tolerate, welcome, indeed, plead for a stiff protective duty upon foreign goods.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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