0 past simple and past participle of abide
1 If you can't abide someone or something, you dislike them very much:
I can't abide her.
He couldn't abide laziness.
He abided in the wilderness for forty days.
It is, however, unclear how much these stipulations were effectively abided by and how far the supervision into the daily routine could go.
However, if such women abided by police rules, they would be left alone.
That agreement, however, was reached and abided by in the context in which the ban was embodied in quite different legislation.
If that is done those who have hitherto abided by the law and paid their bills will continue to do so.
There is a system of pay research, and we have abided by it.
It is a matter of confidentiality whether an employer abided by the basic principles of employment law.
We expect that to be abided by strictly, but it adds to the air of puzzlement.
If one went through the membership and strictly abided by that standard, then it would most regrettably fall off sharply.
