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. Sebastian Kurz:

   For all these successes in the past two years I had to be ready to withstand a lot and also put up with a lot, from the rat poem to the proximity to radical right-wing groups and the 'isolated incidents' that kept coming back, there were many situations in which I found it very difficult to swallow all that.

2. Betty White:

   Little did I dream then, that I would be here and it's incredible that I'm still in this business and that you are still putting up with me, i am thanking you. It's incredible that you can stay in a career this long and still have people put up with you. I wish they did that at home.

3. Mark Twain:

   Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

4. Marcus Aurelius:

   Pain too is just a scary mask: look under it and you will see. The body sometimes suffers, but relief is never far behind. And if that isn’t good enough for you, the door stands open; otherwise put up with it. The door needs to stay open whatever the circumstances, with the result that our problems disappear.

5. Barb DePree:

   If you are experiencing itching in your vulva, it actually isn't all that likely to be ayeast infection, it’s more likely to be related to something that caused contact irritation, or a vulvar skin issue. Some women put up with months to years of irritation before seeking an exam, so don't assume itching and irritation is just a normal part of life for women. It isn't!