put up with

English

Etymology

From put up + with.

Pronunciation

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Verb

put up with (third-person singular simple present puts up with, present participle putting up with, simple past and past participle put up with)

1. (idiomatic) To endure, tolerate, suffer through, or allow, especially something annoying.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tolerate

   I put up with a lot of nonsense, but this is too much.

   • 2013, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight (motion picture), spoken by Celine (Julie Delpy):

     Will you be able to put up with me for another 56 more years?

2. (reflexive) To be taken in; to be sheltered (put up).
   • 2012, adoptuskids.org‎^[1]:

     Thousands of teens in foster care would love to put up with you.

   • 2022, Chowdhury I. Zaman, In the Corridors of Elysium‎^[2], page 180:

     We put up with a family friend, who was an extremely gracious and hospitable host.

Related terms

• put up

Translations

to tolerate, suffer through — see also bear

• Bengali: সহ্য করা (śojjho kora), সওয়া (bn) (śoōẇa)
• Bulgarian: понасям (bg) (ponasjam), примирявам се (primirjavam se)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: finde sig i
• Dutch: ondergaan (nl), verdragen (nl)
• Esperanto: elteni, toleri (eo)
• Finnish: sietää (fi), sulattaa (fi)
• Galician: aturar (gl)
• Georgian: ატარებს (aṭarebs), იტანს (iṭans), ძლებს (ʒlebs)
• German: in Kauf nehmen (de), hinnehmen (de), akzeptieren (de), mit etwas klarkommen, klarkommen (de), ertragen (de), aushalten (de), mitmachen (de)
• Greek: ανέχομαι (el) (anéchomai)
• Hebrew: להשלים עם‎ (lehashlim 'im)
• Hungarian: eltűr (hu), elvisel (hu)
• Irish: cuir suas le
• Italian: sopportare (it), tollerare (it)
• Latin: tolerō, perpetior
• Maori: koromaki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avfinne seg med, tåle (no), tolerere

• Ottoman Turkish: گوتورمك‎ (götürmek)
• Portuguese: aguentar (pt), suportar (pt), tolerar (pt), aturar (pt)
• Russian: сноси́ть (ru) n (snosítʹ), терпе́ть (ru) n (terpétʹ)
• Spanish: aguantar (es), soportar (es), tolerar (es)
• Swedish: stå ut med, finna sig i
• Ukrainian: терпі́ти (terpíty), толерува́ти (toleruváty), мири́тися з (myrýtysja z), змиря́тися (zmyrjátysja)
• Yiddish: אויסהאַלטן‎ (oyshaltn), סובל זײַן‎ (soyvl zayn), אויסשטיין‎ (oysshteyn), אויסלײַדן‎ (oyslaydn)