Know and Tolerate

Know

Know verb - To have a practical understanding of.

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Tolerate and know are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tolerate" instead a verb "Know".

Nearby Words: knowing, known

Tolerate verb - To fail to prevent (some behavior on someone's part) especially from neglect or indifference.

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Know and tolerate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Know" instead a verb "Tolerate".

person	know person	tolerate person
man	know man	tolerate man
kind	know kind	tolerate kind
someone	know someone	tolerate someone
Other words: language, nothing, anyone.

Everything's Better with Penguins: A page in episode 13 has "the characters you've come to know and tolerate" drawn as penguins "due to stuff".

Source: Comic Book / Pink Chickens
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
Stahma is smart enough to know that Alak's wife, being a human, won't tolerate infidelity and takes measures to protect her son's marriage.

Source: Your Cheating Heart

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