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Tolerate
Tolerate verb - To fail to prevent (some behavior on someone's part) especially from neglect or indifference.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- However, Vimes has been known to make similar comments, but they tolerate it from him because they know that when things get dicey Vimes has their back, where Fred is a usually-Lovable Coward.
Source: Noble Bigot with a Badge -
Cheese gets sent back due to insufficient postage — the message on the package says "Postage insufficient to tolerate smell".
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He fights against giants only to mate with or tolerate them only to go back to fighting with them.
Source: True Neutral
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Tolerate and Back. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/back/tolerate
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Tolerate or Back. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/back/tolerate.
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