Synonyms for put up with
put up with

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1. put up with

   Bear is the most general of these words; it is metaphorically to hold up or keep up a burden of care, pain, grief, annoyance, or the like, without sinking, lamenting, or repining. Allow and permit involve large concession of the will; put up with and tolerate imply decided aversion and reluctant withholding of opposition or interference; whispering is allowed by the school-teacher who does not forbid nor censure it; one puts up with the presence of a disagreeable visitor; a state tolerates a religion which it would be glad to suppress. To endure is to bear with strain and resistance, but with conscious power; endure conveys a fuller suggestion of contest and conquest than bear. One may choose to endure the pain of a surgical operation rather than take anesthetics; he permits the thing to come which he must brace himself to endure when it comes. To afford is to be equal to a pecuniary demand, i. e., to be able to bear it. To brook is quietly to put up with provocation or insult. Abide combines the senses of await and endure; as, I will abide the result. Compare ABIDE; SUPPORT.

   Synonyms:
   abide, afford, allow, bear, bear up under, bear with, brook, endure, permit, submit to, suffer, support, sustain, tolerate, undergo

   Antonyms:
   break, break down, despair, droop, fail, faint, fall, falter, give out, give up, sink, succumb, surrender, yield

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1. put up with

   Synonyms:
   endure (without complaint), bear, tolerate, suffer, POCKET, submit to, make the best of

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1. George Will:

   The president is doing all that the country will permit him to do. That is, air support and logistical support, beyond that, they will put up with very little. Except… [American troops] are still getting killed.

2. Navinder Singh Sarao:

   There's something very wrong here ... I can't put up with these fluctuations in speed so that I can't trade when the market is moving like it was today.

3. Philippe Lamberts:

   They should shut up and put up with it. It's not a question of profits, it's about health, it's about the rule of law.

4. House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan:

   I put up with politics in order to do policy.

5. Nikki Haley:

   China and Russia are on the march. They all think we can be bullied, kicked around. You should know this about me: I don’t put up with bullies and when you kick back it hurts them more if you’re wearing heels.