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ABIDE

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Irregular inflected form: abode   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put up with something or somebody unpleasant

Example:

She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "abide" is one way to...):

allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)

Verb group:

suffer (experience (emotional) pain)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "abide"):

accept; live with; swallow (tolerate or accommodate oneself to)

hold still for; stand for (tolerate or bear)

bear up (endure cheerfully)

take lying down (suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively)

take a joke (listen to a joke at one's own expense)

sit out (endure to the end)

pay (bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot abide Sue

Derivation:

abidance (the act of abiding (enduring without yielding))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Dwell

Example:

stay a bit longer--the day is still young

Synonyms:

abide; bide; stay

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "abide" is one way to...):

continue; remain; stay; stay on (continue in a place, position, or situation)

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "abide"):

visit (stay with as a guest)

outstay; overstay (stay too long)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

abidance (the act of dwelling in a place)

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 Context examples: 

However, it seems that Ross 128 is a much quieter star, and so its planets may be the closest known comfortable abode for possible life.

(Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered, ESO)

That was the name, style, and abode of my morning visitor.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I believe they went to the trouble of putting an extra amount of garlic into our food; and I can't abide garlic.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I had been grossly wrong, and must abide the consequences.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She had heard nothing of him since her leaving London, nothing new of his plans, nothing certain even of his present abode.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Who are you that dare to come here to insult a law-abiding man?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Their superiority of abode was no more to them than their superiority of person.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Grant, occurred just after they had been married long enough to begin to want an increase of income, and feel their distance from the paternal abode an inconvenience.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He next tried to get off his horse and make his way on foot, but again the laugh rang in his ears, and he found himself unable to move a step, and thus he was forced to abide spellbound.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Given 2004 EW95’s present-day abode in the icy outer reaches of the Solar System, this implies that it has been flung out into its present orbit by a migratory planet in the early days of the Solar System.

(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)