English > tolerate: 4 senses > verb 1, cognition| Meaning | put up with something or somebody unpleasant. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
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| Model | Sam cannot tolerate Sue |
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| Example | "he learned to tolerate the heat" |
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| Synonyms | digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up |
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| Narrower | accept, live with, swallow | Tolerate or accommodate oneself to |
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| bear up | endure cheerfully |
| pay | bear (a cost or penalty) , in recompense for some action |
| sit out | endure to the end / end |
| stand for, hold still for | Tolerate or bear |
| take a joke | listen to a joke at one's own expense |
| take lying down | Suffer without protest |
| Broader | permit, allow, let, countenance | consent to, give permission |
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| Similar to | suffer | Experience (emotional) pain |
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| Spanish | aguantar, apechar, consentir, digerir, sobrellevar, soportar, sufrir, tolerar |
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| Catalan | aguantar, sofrir, suportar, tolerar |
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| Adjectives | tolerant | tolerant and forgiving under provocation |
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| tolerant | showing the capacity for endurance |
| Nouns | tolerance | the act of tolerating something |
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| toleration | a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations |
