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Synonyms of the word 
SUFFER → ABIDE - ACHE - ALLOW - BE - BEAR - BROOK - COMPREHEND - COUNTENANCE - DECLINE - DIGEST - ENDURE - EXPERIENCE - FEEL - GET - HAVE - HURT - INCLINE - LEAN - LET - LOSE - MEET - PERCEIVE - PERMIT - RECEIVE - RUN - SEE - STAND - STOMACH - SUPPORT - SUSTAIN - TEND - TOLERATE - UNDERGO - WORSENsuffer- v. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
- v. (intransitive) To feel pain.
- v. (intransitive) To become worse.
- v. (transitive) To endure, undergo.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To allow.
abide- v. Accept, comply or act in accordance.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To wait in expectation.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To pause; to delay.
- v. (intransitive) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition;…
- v. (intransitive, archaic) To have one's abode; to dwell; to reside; to sojourn.
- v. (intransitive) To endure; to remain; to last.
- v. (transitive) To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
- v. (transitive) To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
- v. (transitive) To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
- v. (transitive) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand.
- v. (transitive) To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for.
- v. A component in at least one phrasal verb: abide by.
ache- v. (intransitive) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to…
- v. (transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
- n. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
- n. (obsolete) Parsley.
- n. Rare spelling of aitch.
allow- v. (transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
- v. (transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
- v. (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
- v. (transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
- v. To not bar or obstruct.
- v. (intransitive) To acknowledge or concede.
- v. (transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.
- v. (transitive) To render physically possible.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
- v. (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.
be- v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
- v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
- v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
- v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
- v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
- v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
- v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
- v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
- v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
- v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
- v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
- v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
- v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
- v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
- v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
- v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
- v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
- v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
- v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
- v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
- v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…
bear- n. A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and…
- n. (figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
- n. (finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
- n. (slang, US) A state policeman (short for smokey bear).
- n. (slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
- n. (engineering) A portable punching machine.
- n. (nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
- v. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
- adj. (finance, investments) Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices…
- v. (transitive) To support or sustain; to hold up.
- v. (transitive) To carry something.
- v. (transitive) To be equipped with (something).
- v. (transitive) To wear or display.
- v. (transitive, with witness) To declare as testimony.
- v. (transitive) To put up with something.
- v. (transitive) To give birth to someone or something (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
- v. (intransitive) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
- v. (intransitive) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
- v. (intransitive) To endure with patience; to be patient.
- v. (intransitive, usually with on, upon, or against) To press.
- v. (trasitive, intransitive) To take effect; to have influence or force.
- v. (intransitive, usually with on or upon) To relate or refer.
- v. (transitive) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To conduct; to bring (a person).
- v. (transitive) To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.
- v. (transitive) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain or win.
- v. (transitive) To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
- v. (transitive) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
- v. (transitive) To admit or be capable of; to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
- v. (transitive) To manage, wield, or direct; to behave or conduct (oneself).
- v. (transitive) To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.
- n. (colloquial) Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
- n. Alternative spelling of bere (“barley”).
brook- v. (transitive, obsolete, except in Scots) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.
- v. (transitive) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract…
- n. A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
- n. (Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
- n. (Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground.
comprehend- v. (now rare) To include, comprise; to contain.
- v. To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly.
countenance- n. Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.
- n. Favour; support; encouragement.
- n. (obsolete) Superficial appearance; show; pretense.
- n. calm facial expression, composure, self-control.
- v. (transitive) To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.
decline- n. Downward movement, fall.
- n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
- n. A weakening.
- n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
- v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
- v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
- v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
- v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
- v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…
digest- v. (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for…
- v. (transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and…
- v. (transitive) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive…
- v. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
- v. (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical…
- v. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
- v. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
- v. (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief).
- n. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads…
- n. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
- n. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine…
- n. (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.
endure- v. (intransitive) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships.
- v. (transitive) To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
- v. (intransitive) To last.
- v. To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under…
- v. (transitive) To suffer patiently.
- v. (obsolete) To indurate.
experience- n. (countable, uncountable) Event(s) of which one is cognizant.
- n. (countable) An activity which one has performed.
- n. (countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge,…
- n. (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
- v. (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions…
feel- v. (heading) To use the sense of touch.
- v. (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
- v. (transitive) To be or become aware of.
- v. (transitive) To experience the consequences of.
- v. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
- v. (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
- n. A quality of an object experienced by touch.
- n. A vague mental impression.
- n. An act of fondling.
- n. A vague understanding.
- n. An intuitive ability.
- n. (chiefly US, slang) Alternative form of feeling.
- pron. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
- adj. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
- adv. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
get- v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
- v. (transitive) To receive.
- v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
- v. (copulative) To become.
- v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
- v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
- v. (transitive) To cause to do.
- v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
- v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
- v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
- v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
- v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
- v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
- v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
- v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
- v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
- v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
- v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
- v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
- v. (transitive) To getter.
- v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
- v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
- v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
- v. (euphemistic) To kill.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
- n. Offspring.
- n. Lineage.
- n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
- n. Something gained.
- n. (Britain, regional) A git.
- n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
have- v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
- v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
- v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
- v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
- v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
- v. (transitive) To give birth to.
- v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
- v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
- v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
- v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
- v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
- v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
- v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
- v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
- v. To trick, to deceive.
- v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
- v. (transitive) To host someone.
hurt- v. (intransitive) To be painful.
- v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
- v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
- adj. Wounded, physically injured.
- adj. Pained.
- n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
- n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
- n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
- n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
- n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
- n. A husk.
incline- v. (transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
- v. (intransitive) To slope.
- v. To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view,…
- n. A slope.
lean- v. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
- v. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to, toward, etc.
- v. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on, upon, or against.
- v. To hang outwards.
- v. To press against.
- n. (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
- adj. (of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy.
- adj. (of meat) having little fat.
- adj. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
- adj. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
- adj. (printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed…
- adj. efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean…
- v. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or…
- v. To conceal.
- n. (slang) A recreational drug based on codeine laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community…
let- v. (transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
- v. (transitive) To leave.
- v. (transitive) To allow the release of (a fluid).
- v. (transitive) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
- v. (transitive) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
- v. (transitive) Used to introduce an imperative in the first or third person.
- v. (transitive, obsolete except with know) To cause (+ bare infinitive).
- n. The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.
- v. (archaic) To hinder, prevent, impede, hamper, cumber; to obstruct (someone or something).
- v. (obsolete) To prevent someone from doing something; also to prevent something from happening.
- v. (obsolete) To tarry or delay.
- n. An obstacle or hindrance.
- n. (tennis) The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.
lose- v. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate…
- v. To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
- v. (transitive) To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.
- v. (transitive) To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc).
- v. (transitive) To shed (weight).
- v. (transitive) To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
- v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
- v. (transitive) To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or…
- v. (transitive) To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).
- v. (transitive, informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
- v. Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
- v. To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
- v. To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to part with; to deprive of.
- n. (obsolete) Fame, renown; praise.
meet- v. (heading) Of individuals: to make personal contact.
- v. (heading) Of groups: to gather or oppose.
- v. (heading) To make physical or perceptual contact.
- v. To satisfy; to comply with.
- v. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
- n. A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.
- n. A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.
- n. (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into…
- n. A meeting.
- n. (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the…
- n. (Ireland) An act of French kissing someone.
- adj. (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.
perceive- v. To see, to be aware of, to understand.
permit- v. (now archaic, rare) To hand over, resign (something to someone).
- v. (transitive) To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for.
- v. (transitive) To allow (someone) to do something; to give permission to.
- v. (intransitive) To allow for, to make something possible.
- v. (intransitive) To allow, to admit (of).
- v. (transitive, pronounced like noun) To grant formal authorization for (something).
- v. (transitive, pronounced like noun) To attempt to obtain or succeed in obtaining formal authorization for…
- n. (obsolete) Formal permission.
- n. An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal.
- n. A pompano of the species Trachinotus falcatus.
receive- v. To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.
- v. To take possession of.
- v. To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence,…
- v. To incur (an injury).
- v. To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
- v. (telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.
- v. (sports) To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To accept into the mind; to understand.
- n. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is received.
run- v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
- v. (fluids) To flow.
- v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- v. (social) To carry out an activity.
- v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
- v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
- v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
- v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
- v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
- v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
- v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
- v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
- v. To have growth or development.
- v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
- v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
- v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
- n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
- n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
- n. A pleasure trip.
- n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
- n. Migration (of fish).
- n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
- n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
- n. A (regular) trip or route.
- n. The route taken while running or skiing.
- n. The distance sailed by a ship.
- n. A voyage.
- n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
- n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
- n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
- n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
- n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
- n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
- n. A trial.
- n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
- n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
- n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
- n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
- n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
- n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
- n. Any sudden large demand for something.
- n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
- n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
- n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
- n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
- n. (cricket) A point scored.
- n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
- n. Unrestricted use of.
- n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
- n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
- n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
- n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
- n. A pair or set of millstones.
- n. (video games) A playthrough.
- n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
- n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
- n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
- n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
- adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
- adj. Cast in a mould.
- adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
- adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.
see- v. (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- v. To form a mental picture of.
- v. (social) To meet, to visit.
- v. (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
- v. (gambling) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
- v. (sometimes mystical) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
- v. To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
- v. (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
- v. (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
- n. A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
- n. The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric.
- n. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
stand- v. (heading) To position or be positioned physically.
- v. (heading) To position or be positioned mentally.
- v. (heading) To position or be positioned socially.
- v. (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified…
- v. (intransitive) To remain without ruin or injury.
- v. (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
- n. The act of standing.
- n. A defensive position or effort.
- n. A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
- n. A period of performance in a given location or venue.
- n. A device to hold something upright or aloft.
- n. The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
- n. A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
- n. (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and…
- n. A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
- n. A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
- n. A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
- n. (US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
- n. (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural).
- n. (cricket) A partnership.
- n. (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.
- n. (obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing.
- n. (dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
- n. A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own…
- n. (obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.
stomach- n. An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
- n. (informal) The belly.
- n. (obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
- n. (obsolete) Appetite.
- n. (figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
- v. (transitive) To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be angry.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
support- n. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
- n. Financial or other help.
- n. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
- n. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure…
- n. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose…
- n. Evidence.
- n. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
- n. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
- v. (transitive) To keep from falling.
- v. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
- v. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
- v. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
- v. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
- v. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
- v. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories,…
- v. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
- v. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
- v. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.
sustain- n. (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
- v. (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
- v. (transitive) To provide for or nourish.
- v. (transitive) To encourage (something).
- v. (transitive) To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
- v. (transitive) To confirm, prove, or corroborate.
- v. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
- v. To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
tend- v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To kindle; ignite; set on fire; light; inflame; burn.
- v. (law, Old English law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
- v. (followed by a to infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain characteristic.
- v. (with to) To look after (e.g. an ill person.).
- v. To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard.
- v. To wait (upon), as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend.
- v. (obsolete) To await; to expect.
- v. (obsolete) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
- v. (transitive, nautical) To manage (an anchored vessel) when the tide turns, to prevent it from entangling…
tolerate- v. To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference.
undergo- v. (transitive, obsolete) To go or move under or beneath.
- v. (transitive) To experience; to pass through a phase.
- v. (transitive) To suffer or endure; bear with.
worsen- v. (transitive) To make worse; to impair.
- v. (intransitive) To become worse; to get worse.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To get the better of; to worst.
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