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Meaning of abide

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  abide
      v 1: dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay
           a bit longer--the day is still young" [syn: {bide},
           {abide}, {stay}]
      2: put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear
         his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a
         lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the
         heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
         [syn: {digest}, {endure}, {stick out}, {stomach}, {bear},
         {stand}, {tolerate}, {support}, {brook}, {abide}, {suffer},
         {put up}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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