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Synonyms

put up with

Idioms  

  1. Endure without complaint, as in She's been very patient, putting up with all kinds of inconvenience. [Mid-1700s]

Example Sentences

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And as for the 2020 street protests — “Same thing. Put up with it.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2020

Poor Jane suffers worse from this gnat than you or I. Put up with it; and understand in your own mind that when he comes for another twenty pounds he must have it.

From Mr. Scarborough's Family by Trollope, Anthony

"Put up with it, I suppose, just as I should put up with his other faults—if I loved him."

From The Moon out of Reach by Pedler, Margaret

"Put up with it, or better still go in for the Cause seriously."

From The Hippodrome by Hayward, Rachel

Put up with it, and wash my hands of it?

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert

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