Allow and Stand

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Allow

Allow verb - To give permission for or to approve of.

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Stand is a synonym for allow in permit topic. In some cases you can use "Stand" instead a verb "Allow", when it comes to topics like have, permit an action.

Nearby Words: allowance, allowable, allowing

Stand

Stand verb - To put up with (something painful or difficult).

Usage example: I don't know how you can stand that job

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Allow is a synonym for stand in have topic. Sometimes you can use "Allow" instead a verb "Stand".

Nearby Words: standing, stance, standee

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life	allow life	stand life
man	allow man	stand man
people	allow people	stand people
men	allow men	stand men
Other words: chance, death, time, use, way, light, game, anyone, women.

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Eventually he does stand up to her, but only after she attempts something so bad that he can't stand by and allow it, leading to her killing him.

Source: Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The action figure actually gives him a Browning M1919 instead, simply to allow him to stand up without tipping over.

Source: Cool Guns / Machine Guns
Using a slash command used to correct various animation glitches while dead used to be able to allow your character to stand back up and move about with 0 health.

Source: Good Bad Bugs / Massively Multiplayer Online RPG

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