live with

verb

tolerate or accommodate oneself to

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I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions

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I swallowed the insult

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She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies

• Syn: ↑accept, ↑swallow

• Derivationally related forms: ↑acceptance (for: ↑accept)

• Hypernyms:

↑digest, ↑endure, ↑stick out, ↑stomach, ↑bear, ↑stand, ↑tolerate, ↑support, ↑brook, ↑abide, ↑suffer, ↑put up

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s something

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1) share a home and have a sexual relationship with (someone to whom one is not married)

2) accept or tolerate (something unpleasant)

our marriage was a failure-you have to learn to live with that fact

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live with [phrasal verb]

1 live with (something) : to accept and deal with (something unpleasant)

You have to learn to live with [=put up with] other people's mistakes.

I don't agree with his decision, but I'll have to live with it.

Until we get a better answer, we will have to live with not knowing for sure.

Because there was no cure, he had to learn to live with the disease.

2 live with (someone) : to live together and usually have sex with (someone)

She's been living with him since college.

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Main Entry: ↑live