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put up with

put up with verb: to endure, tolerate, suffer through, or allow, especially something annoying.

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, informal) To endure, tolerate, suffer through, or allow, especially something annoying.
    • I put up with a lot of nonsense, but this is too much.
    • Will you be able to put up with me for another 56 more years?2013, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight (motion picture), spoken by Celine (Julie Delpy)
  2. To be taken in; to be sheltered (put up).
    • Thousands of teens in foster care would love to put up with you.2012, adoptuskids.org
    • We put up with a family friend, who was an extremely gracious and hospitable host.2022, Chowdhury I. Zaman, In the Corridors of Elysium, page 180

put up with meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

put up with in Hindi

to put up with
बर्दाश्त करना bardāśt karnā

put up with in Tamil

சகித்தல், பொறுத்தல், தாங்குதல், தாளுதல், சகித்துக்கொள்தல்

put up with in Urdu

to put up with
برداشت کرنا bardāśt karnā

put up with in Bengali

to tolerate, suffer through
সহ্য করা śojjho kora, সওয়া śoōẇa
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put up with in Malayalam
പൊറുക്കുക, ക്ഷമിക്കുക, സഹിക്കുക, മർഷിക്കുക
put up with in Kannada
ಸಹಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳು, ತಾಳಿಕೊಳ್ಳು

Synonyms of put up with

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Forms of put up with

third-person singular presentputs up with
present participleputting up with
past participleput up with
pastput up with

Origin of put up with

From put up + with.

Questions about put up with

What does put up with mean?
Put up with means to endure, tolerate, suffer through, or allow, especially something annoying.
What is put up with in Hindi?
Put up with in Hindi is बर्दाश्त करना (bardāśt karnā). See Put up with meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is put up with?
Put up with is a verb.
What is the past tense of put up with?
The past tense of put up with is put up with.

Words near put up with in the dictionary

  1. put up one's hand
  2. put up one's hands
  3. put up or shut up
  4. put up the shutters
  5. put up to
  6. put up with
  7. put upon
  8. put wood in t'hole
  9. put wood in t’hole
  10. put words in someone's mouth
  11. put-and-take

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: put up with (page history and authors); बर्दाश्त करना (Hindi) (page history and authors); put up with (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); برداشت کرنا (Urdu) (page history and authors); put up with (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); put up with (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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