Synonyms for abide
əˈbaɪdabide

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1. abide

   To abide is to remain continuously without limit of time unless expressed by the context: "to-day I must abide at thy house," Luke xix, 5; "a settled place for thee to abide in forever," 1 Kings viii, 13; "Abide with me! fast falls the eventide," Lyte Hymn. Lodge, sojourn, stay, tarry, and wait always imply a limited time; lodge, to pass the night; sojourn, to remain temporarily; live, dwell, reside, to have a permanent home. Stop, in the sense of stay or sojourn, is colloquial, and not in approved use. Compare ENDURE; REST.

   Synonyms:
   anticipate, await, bear, bide, confront, continue, dwell, endure, expect, inhabit, live, lodge, remain, reside, rest, sojourn, stay, stop, tarry, tolerate, wait, watch

   Antonyms:
   abandon, avoid, depart, forfeit, forfend, journey, migrate, move, proceed, reject, resist, shun

   Preposition:
   Abide in a place, for a time, with a person, by a statement.

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1. abide

   Synonyms:
   dwell, stay, inhabit, continue, rest, tarry, lodge, reside, live, wait, sojourn, remain, expect, endure, tolerate, anticipate, confront, await, bear, face, watch

   Antonyms:
   deport, migrate, move, journey, proceed, resist, mislike, forefend, avoid, shun, reject, abandon, forfeit

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1. bide, abide, stayverb

   dwell

   "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young"

   Synonyms:
   put up, stay, bide, stick, stand, suffer, brook, delay, support, ride out, persist, stomach, digest, tolerate, quell, rest, appease, stick out, remain, stick around, endure, stay on, stay put, last out, outride, bear, continue, detain

2. digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put upverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   bide, project, ache, hold out, run, endure, affirm, underpin, carry, stand up, assume, have, hold, last, sustain, confirm, fend, stay, weather, take over, go, jut, endorse, jut out, turn out, digest, deport, prevail, comport, set up, behave, die hard, pay, jump out, remain firm, offer, tolerate, deliver, indorse, hurt, condense, raise, fend for, back up, stomach, birth, patronage, stand out, live, contribute, stick out, meet, brook, expect, patronize, suffer, concentrate, protrude, acquit, substantiate, brave out, survive, domiciliate, get, put forward, stand, can, post, plunk for, persist, live on, have a bun in the oven, give birth, back, jump, allow, rear, lose, place upright, wear, house, contain, leap out, bear, patronise, subscribe, hold up, corroborate, provide, erect, defend, brave, put up, tin, keep going, accept, bear out, support, resist, plump for, nominate, yield, gestate, permit, conduct

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1. abideverb

   Synonyms:
   stay, sojourn, tarry, lodge, rest, keep, take up one's quarters, pitch one's tent

2. abideverb

   Synonyms:
   dwell, reside, live, inhabit, settle, plant one's self, get a footing, get a foothold

3. abideverb

   Synonyms:
   remain, continue, persist, persevere, SUBSIST, go on, keep on, be steadfast, be constant

4. abideverb

   Synonyms:
   endure, bear

5. abideverb

   Synonyms:
   await, attend, wait for, be in readiness for, be in store for

6. abideverb

   Synonyms:
   endure, tolerate, bear, brook, suffer, bear with, put up with

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1. abideverb

   Synonyms:
   dwell, stay, sojourn, continue, remain, acquiesce, conform to

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1. List of paraphrases for "abide":

   comply, respect, adhere, fulfil, conform, meet, stick, observe, honour

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How to use abide in a sentence?

1. Bryan Griffin:

   Discrimination of any sort is not welcome in the state of Florida, and we do not abide by the woke notion that discrimination should be overlooked if applied in a politically popular manner or against a politically unpopular demographic. We are fighting all discrimination in our schools and our workplaces, and we will fight it in publicly accessible places of meeting or activity.

2. Mr Chandra:

   We did about 10,000 hires last year. We have lots of different roles at Google and we hire people from all different backgrounds, we are a company that provides to ability for folks to be able to express their position, or their thoughts, on any particular topic but we’re very clear though that it has to abide by the code of conduct, it has to be respectful and not intended to be hurtful.

3. Jonathan White:

   We share concern that I think everyone in this room feels. Anytime a child is abused in the care of ORR is one too many, we abide fully with the laws this Congress has passed, in terms of Prison Rape Elimination Act, I mean the Prison Rape Elimination Act and the Violence Against Women Act.

4. Gary Locke:

   China is trying to present itself as kind of a new force, standing up against the Western powers or the Western order. China and many of these other countries that are emerging much stronger economically and politically feel that they’re having to abide by the rules made by the United States and some of the European countries.

5. Darcy Kriha:

   We, unfortunately, in some cases, have to abide by state and federal law that contradicts what the school's job is for students and what our obligations are to serve medically fragile and ill students.