abide
v.
stay; live, dwell; continue; tolerate, put up with; wait; comply, submit, obey, conform
abide
Verb
1. dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young"
(synonym) bide, stay
(hypernym) stay, stay on, continue, remain
(hyponym) visit
(derivation) residency, residence, abidance
(classification) archaism, archaicism
2. 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"
(synonym) digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, suffer, put up
(hypernym) permit, allow, let, countenance
(hyponym) accept, live with, swallow
(verb-group) suffer
(derivation) abidance
abide
n.
monument, memorial, monument built in honor of a deceased person or past event
Abide
(v. t.)
To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time.
(v. t.)
To stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for.
(v. t.)
To endure; to sustain; to submit to.
(v. t.)
To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with.
(v. i.)
To wait; to pause; to delay.
(v. i.)
To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place.
(v. i.)
To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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