OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 158

abide

/əˈbaɪd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aguantar • durar • permanecer • quedar • resistir
To endure without yielding; to withstand.
The old oak tree abides the wind endlessly.
soportar • tolerar
To bear patiently.
"I never could abide shoemakers," said an old servant,—and it ended in her marrying one.
We are vegetarian leaning, dislike smoking and alcohol, cannot abide drugs.
afrontar • apechugar[se] con
To pay for; to stand the consequences of.
aguardar • esperar
To wait in expectation.
permanecer • quedar
To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
But they constrained him, saying, Abide with vs, for it is towards euening, and the day is farre spent: And he went in, to tarrie with them.
One generation passeth away, and another generation commeth: but the earth abideth for euer.
habitar • morar • residir
To have one's abode.
"As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / Fo…
In empty hush, in airless gloom, Mr. Knott abode, in the large room set aside for his exclusive enjoyment, and that of his attendant.
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