MEANING
1. To remain or continue, especially in an elevated or older usage.
2. To bear or tolerate something, often in negative constructions.
3. To comply with or act according to something.
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Words that belong together
- abide in a place
- an abiding influence
On the page
The old narrator wrote that the memory abode with him.
Her influence abided after the household dispersed.
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Word forms
- Base
- abide
- Past tense
- abided or abode
- Past participle
- abided or abode
- Present participle
- abiding
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- abide
- Present continuous
- am/is/are abiding
- Present perfect
- have/has abided or abode
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been abiding
- Past
- abided or abode
- Past continuous
- was/were abiding
- Past perfect
- had abided or abode
- Past perfect continuous
- had been abiding
- Future
- will abide
- Future continuous
- will be abiding
- Future perfect
- will have abided or abode
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been abiding
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: abide; abides; abided or abode; abided or abode; abiding Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: abides.
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