Tolerate Definition

tŏlə-rāt
tolerated, tolerates, tolerating
verb
tolerated, tolerates, tolerating
To not interfere with; allow; permit.
To tolerate heresy.
Webster's New World
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.
American Heritage
To recognize and respect (others' beliefs, practices, etc.) without sharing them.
Webster's New World
To bear, or put up with (someone or something not especially liked)
Webster's New World
To accept or be patient regarding (something unpleasant or undesirable); endure.
Tolerated his insults for weeks.
American Heritage
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Origin of Tolerate

  • From Latin tolerātus (past participle), from tolerō (“I endure"). Cognate with Old English þolian (“to tolerate, suffer, bear"). More at thole.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin tolerāre tolerāt- to bear telə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tolerate Sentence Examples

  • She said she couldn't tolerate his moods.

  • There's one creature who can tolerate you, and that's me.

  • But no state could long tolerate the affronts which English seamen offered Spain.

  • This, however, like the service itself, represented a compromise which the more extreme reformers would not tolerate, and in the second Prayer-book, together with such language in the canon as might imply the doctrine of transubstantiation and of the sacrifice, the word Mass also disappears.

  • Steeped in absolutist ideas, James was not likely to tolerate religious dissent.

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Words Starting With

TTOTOL

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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tolerate

Words Starting With T and Ending With E

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