Definitions for tolerate

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tolerate tol·er·ate

Spelling: [tol-uh-reyt]

IPA: /ˈtɒl əˌreɪt/

Tolerate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 205 anagrams from letters in tolerate (aeelortt).

Definitions for tolerate

verb (used with object)

1. to allow the existence, presence, practice, or act of without prohibition or hindrance; permit.
2. to endure without repugnance; put up with:
3. Medicine/Medical. to endure or resist the action of (a drug, poison, etc.).
4. Obsolete. to experience, undergo, or sustain, as pain or hardship.

Origin of tolerate

1525-35; Latin tolerātus, past participle of tolerāre to bear (akin to thole²); see -ate¹

Examples for tolerate

Should she leave her husband and endure loneliness or tolerate his dalliance and keep a companion for old age?

What you should want to create is a culture or community that immediately does not tolerate bigotry, harassment, and abuse.

Why tolerate toxicity in a powerful sphere of modern life that has the potential to—and does—benefit so many?

Revisions went back and forth for weeks before Caro finally signed off on versions he could tolerate.

But that terrible monopoly, the Paris-Lyon-Mditerrane, will tolerate no rivals.

In the same way, he came to tolerate Matt—as a possession of his master.

I don't refer merely to the liaisons which we have had to tolerate.

“The US cannot tolerate the idea of any rival economic entity,” Stone writes.

They only tolerate the female Orders, and will only have one flock.

To tolerate and accept it is to revive the dark evil ages afresh.