verb
tolerate or accommodate oneself to
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I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions
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I swallowed the insult
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She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies
• Derivationally related forms: ↑acceptance (for: ↑accept)
• Hypernyms:
↑digest, ↑endure, ↑stick out, ↑stomach, ↑bear, ↑stand, ↑tolerate, ↑support, ↑brook, ↑abide, ↑suffer, ↑put up
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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1) share a home and have a sexual relationship with (someone to whom one is not married)
2) accept or tolerate (something unpleasant)
our marriage was a failure-you have to learn to live with that fact
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live with [phrasal verb]
1 live with (something) : to accept and deal with (something unpleasant)
You have to learn to live with [=put up with] other people's mistakes.
I don't agree with his decision, but I'll have to live with it.
Until we get a better answer, we will have to live with not knowing for sure.
Because there was no cure, he had to learn to live with the disease.
She's been living with him since college.
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Main Entry: ↑live
Useful english dictionary. 2012.