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cope with

cope with verb: to come to terms with; to overcome any difficulties presented by.

Verb

cope with (third-person singular simple present copes with, present participle coping with, simple past and past participle coped with)

  1. (transitive) To come to terms with; to overcome any difficulties presented by.
    • She finds her mental illness very difficult to cope with.
    • The government should implement this policy to cope with this serious problem.

cope with meaning in Tamil

cope with in Tamil

come to terms with
சமாளி camāḷi

Examples of cope with in a sentence

  • I was fagged out, and for the first time in years felt a question as to my ability to cope with an antagonist; […]1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as...
  • Most staff do not have the skills to cope with such challenging patients, who too often receive "impersonal" care and suffer from boredom, the first National Audit of Dementia found.2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian:
  • Most train operators have reduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicron variant of COVID.2022 January 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Emergency timetables as absences surge due to COVID”, in RAIL, number 948, page 6:

Synonyms of cope with

Forms of cope with

third-person singular presentcopes with
present participlecoping with
past participlecoped with
pastcoped with

Questions about cope with

What does cope with mean?
Cope with means to come to terms with; to overcome any difficulties presented by.
What is cope with in Tamil?
Cope with in Tamil is சமாளி (camāḷi). See Cope with meaning in Tamil.
How do you use cope with in a sentence?
I was fagged out, and for the first time in years felt a question as to my ability to cope with an antagonist; […]
What part of speech is cope with?
Cope with is a verb.
What is the past tense of cope with?
The past tense of cope with is coped with.

Words near cope with in the dictionary

  1. cope chisel
  2. cope chisels
  3. Cope Cope
  4. Cope rearrangement
  5. Cope rearrangements
  6. cope with
  7. Cope's law
  8. Cope's rule
  9. copeck
  10. copecks
  11. coped

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