MEANING
To bear or permit something unwelcome or objectionable without acting to stop it.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- tolerate a delay
- tolerate dissent
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She tolerated the delay but not the explanation offered for it.
He tolerated dissent until it reached his own decisions.
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Word forms
- Base
- tolerate
- Past tense
- tolerated
- Past participle
- tolerated
- Present participle
- tolerating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- tolerate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are tolerating
- Present perfect
- have/has tolerated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been tolerating
- Past
- tolerated
- Past continuous
- was/were tolerating
- Past perfect
- had tolerated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been tolerating
- Future
- will tolerate
- Future continuous
- will be tolerating
- Future perfect
- will have tolerated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been tolerating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: tolerate; tolerates; tolerated; tolerated; tolerating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: tolerates.
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