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tol·er·ate
(tŏl′ə-rāt′)tr.v. tol·er·at·ed, tol·er·at·ing, tol·er·ates
1. To refrain from interfering with or prohibiting (something undesirable or outside one's own practice or beliefs); allow or permit: The president will not tolerate any deviation from stated policy.
2. To recognize and respect (the rights, beliefs, or practices of others).
3. To accept or be patient regarding (something unpleasant or undesirable); endure: tolerated his insults for weeks. See Synonyms at endure.
4. Medicine To have tolerance for (a substance or pathogen).
tol′er·a′tive adj.
tol′er·a′tor n.
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tolerate
(ˈtɒləˌreɪt)vb (tr)
1. to treat with indulgence, liberality, or forbearance
2. to permit
3. to be able to bear; put up with
4. (Medicine) med to have tolerance for (a drug, poison, etc)
[C16: from Latin tolerāre sustain; related to thole2]
ˈtolerative adj
ˈtolerˌator n
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tol•er•ate
(ˈtɒl əˌreɪt)v.t. -at•ed, -at•ing.
1. to allow the existence, presence, practice, or act of without prohibition or hindrance; permit.
2. to endure without repugnance; put up with: I cannot tolerate incompetence.
3. to experience, undergo, or sustain, as pain or hardship.
4. Med. to endure or resist the action of (a drug, invasive procedure, etc.).
tol′er•a`tive, adj.
tol′er•a`tor, n.
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tolerate
Past participle: tolerated
Gerund: tolerating
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| Verb | 1. |  tolerate - put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"live with, swallow, accept - tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies" hold still for, stand for - tolerate or bear; "I won't stand for this kind of behavior!" bear up - endure cheerfully; "She bore up under the enormous strain" take lying down - suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively; "I won't take this insult lying down" take a joke - listen to a joke at one's own expense; "Can't you take a joke?" sit out - endure to the end pay - bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action; "You'll pay for this!"; "She had to pay the penalty for speaking out rashly"; "You'll pay for this opinion later" countenance, permit, allow, let - consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam" suffer - experience (emotional) pain; "Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers" |
| 2. |  tolerate - recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others); "We must tolerate the religions of others" | |
| 3. | tolerate - 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" medical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques | |
| 4. |  tolerate - allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting; "We don't allow dogs here"; "Children are not permitted beyond this point"; "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital"countenance, permit, allow, let - consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam" |
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tolerate
verb
1. endure, stand, suffer, bear, take, stomach, undergo, swallow, hack (slang), abide, put up with (informal), submit to, thole (Scot.) She can no longer tolerate the position that she's in.
2. allow, accept, permit, sanction, take, receive, admit, brook, indulge, put up with (informal), condone, countenance, turn a blind eye to, wink at I will not tolerate breaches of the code of conduct.
allow ban, veto, forbid, prohibit, outlaw, disapprove, preclude, disallow, criminalize
allow ban, veto, forbid, prohibit, outlaw, disapprove, preclude, disallow, criminalize
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tolerate
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Translations
يَتَحَمَّل
snášet
tåletolerere
òola
pakantumaspripratimastolerancija
samierināties
prenašati
dayanmaktahammül etmek
tolerate
[ˈtɒləreɪt] VT [+ heat, pain] → aguantar, soportar; [+ person] → tolerar, soportarI can't tolerate any more → no aguanto más
are we to tolerate this? → ¿hemos de soportar esto?
it is not to be tolerated → es intolerable, es insoportable
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
tolerate
[ˈtɒləreɪt] vt (= accept) [+ behaviour, person] → tolérer
We will not tolerate such behaviour → Nous ne tolérerons pas ce comportement.
We will not tolerate such behaviour → Nous ne tolérerons pas ce comportement.
(= bear) [+ pain, discomfort] → supporter
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
tolerate
vt
person → tolerieren; behaviour, injustice etc → dulden, tolerieren, hinnehmen; ideas → tolerieren; he can tolerate anything except intolerance → er kann alles tolerieren, nur keine Intoleranz; it is not to be tolerated → so etwas kann man nicht dulden or hinnehmen; I won’t tolerate this disobedience! → ich dulde diesen Ungehorsam nicht!
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Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
tolerate
(ˈtoləreit) verb to bear or endure; to put up with. I couldn't tolerate his rudeness.
ˈtolerable adjective1. able to be borne or endured. The heat was barely tolerable.
2. quite good. The food was tolerable.
ˈtolerance noun1. the ability to be fair and understanding to people whose ways, opinions etc are different from one's own. We should always try to show tolerance to other people.
2. the ability to resist the effects of eg a drug. If you take a drug regularly, your body gradually acquires a tolerance of it.
ˈtolerant adjective showing tolerance. He's very tolerant towards his neighbours.
ˈtolerantly adverbˌtoleˈration noun
1. the act of tolerating. His toleration of her behaviour amazed me.
2. tolerance, especially in religious matters. The government passed a law of religious toleration.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
tolerate
vt. tolerar, permitir.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
tolerate
vt tolerar, soportar, aguantarEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.