Synonyms for put up with
put up with

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1. put up with

   Bear is the most general of these words; it is metaphorically to hold up or keep up a burden of care, pain, grief, annoyance, or the like, without sinking, lamenting, or repining. Allow and permit involve large concession of the will; put up with and tolerate imply decided aversion and reluctant withholding of opposition or interference; whispering is allowed by the school-teacher who does not forbid nor censure it; one puts up with the presence of a disagreeable visitor; a state tolerates a religion which it would be glad to suppress. To endure is to bear with strain and resistance, but with conscious power; endure conveys a fuller suggestion of contest and conquest than bear. One may choose to endure the pain of a surgical operation rather than take anesthetics; he permits the thing to come which he must brace himself to endure when it comes. To afford is to be equal to a pecuniary demand, i. e., to be able to bear it. To brook is quietly to put up with provocation or insult. Abide combines the senses of await and endure; as, I will abide the result. Compare ABIDE; SUPPORT.

   Synonyms:
   abide, afford, allow, bear, bear up under, bear with, brook, endure, permit, submit to, suffer, support, sustain, tolerate, undergo

   Antonyms:
   break, break down, despair, droop, fail, faint, fall, falter, give out, give up, sink, succumb, surrender, yield

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1. put up with

   Synonyms:
   endure (without complaint), bear, tolerate, suffer, POCKET, submit to, make the best of

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1. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid:

   Why should the taxpayers of this country and people of Florida put up with having only one senator? Doesn’t seem fair to me.

2. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.:

   Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

3. Barbara Hall:

   One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids.

4. Theory Kinnett:

   I’m not trying to be grandiose but if not me then who? somebody has to tell the Indianapolis parents that this stuff is going on. I put up with a lot but lying to parents about what we do so that they don’t even have a choice to get their kids out of the district?

5. Navinder Singh Sarao:

   There's something very wrong here ... I can't put up with these fluctuations in speed so that I can't trade when the market is moving like it was today.