Spare and Tolerate

Spare

Spare verb - To use or give out in stingy amounts.

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

Nearby Words: spar, sparing, spared, sparely

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

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

life	spare life	tolerate life
man	spare man	tolerate man
people	spare people	tolerate people
men	spare men	tolerate men
Other words: someone, pain, child, anyone, humans.

Red John does NOT tolerate "poor imitations" of his work, and is even kind enough to spare the life of the patsy the main perpetrators of the plot blackmailed into it (with his mother's life no less) with merely a shot to the leg.

Source: Even Evil Has Standards / Live-Action TV
Even Evil Has Standards: Red John does NOT tolerate "poor imitations" of his work, and is even kind enough to spare the life of the patsy the main perpetrators of the plot blackmailed into it (with his mother's life no less) with merely a shot to the leg.

Source: Series / The Mentalist

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