cope

To cope is to successfully manage something difficult or challenging.

(verb)

An example of cope is when you are able to get through the hard time after your mother's death.
An example of cope is when a street is wide enough to handle the amount of traffic it gets.

See cope in Webster's New World College Dictionary

intransitive verb coped, coping

Origin: ME coupen < OFr coper, colper, to strike < colp, coup

transitive verb

noun

Origin: ME < ML capa, var. of LL cappa: see cap

transitive verb coped, coping

to cover or provide with a cope or coping

transitive verb coped, coping

to cut or shape (a part used in building) so that it will fit over or against another part, as a coping or molding

Origin: back-form. < coping

See cope in American Heritage Dictionary 4

intransitive verb coped coped, cop·ing, copes

To contend or strive, especially on even terms or with success: coping with child rearing and a full-time job.
To contend with difficulties and act to overcome them: “Facing unprecedented problems, the Federal Reserve of the early 1930s couldn't cope” (Robert J. Samuelson).

Origin:

Origin: Middle English copen, coupen, to strike

Origin: , from Old French couper

Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *colpāre

Origin: , from Late Latin colpus, blow; see coup

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