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Synonyms for put up with

  • verb

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allow suffer tolerate endure

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Verb

1. Bear — to endure, tolerate, suffer through, or allow, especially something annoying

bear, suffer, tolerate, endure, allow, stomach, brook formal, abide, take, bide, support, go along with, stand, accept, stick, bear with, take sitting down, swallow, undergo, forbear, aby UK, pocket informal dated

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To endure, tolerate, suffer through, or allow, especially something annoying.

    I put up with a lot of nonsense, but this is too much.

Choose the right word

Put Up With or Brook?

To brook is quietly to put up with provocation or insult.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • allow He didn't allow me to pay the bill for the dinner.
  • suffer The love that I suffer from is a shameful disease.
  • tolerate I would say that I tolerate cold better than heat.
  • endure They had to endure great hardship during the war.

By length

3 letters
aby
4 letters
take1, bear1, bide1
5 letters
stand1, allow2, stick1, brook1, abide2
6 letters
accept2, suffer2, pocket2, endure2
7 letters
support2, stomach2, swallow2, undergo3, forbear
8 letters
tolerate3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (allow2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
tenir le coup
Italiano
tenere duro
Català
mantenir-se