0 to accept behaviour and beliefs that are different from your own, although you might not agree with or approve of them: --
[ + -ing verb ] I won't tolerate lying.
1 to deal with something unpleasant or annoying, or to continue existing despite bad or difficult conditions: --
These ants can tolerate temperatures that would kill other species.
2 to bear something unpleasant or annoying, or to keep going despite difficulties: --
Athletes often have to tolerate a lot of pain.
3 to accept behavior and beliefs that are different from your own, although you may not agree with or approve of them: --
Sensitive variations of diameters are tolerated and the state of the interior area can have whatever state.
The mestizo chicleros sometimes harassed their fellow tappers, but to a large extent they tolerated each other.
By escalating the dose until side effects become limiting, the maximum tolerated dose of drug is established.
Swift declined to spell out the point to which a ruler's errors should be tolerated.
Because noxious drudgery must be tolerated, are we to sanction compulsory inutility ?
Long-term treatment was generally well tolerated with most adverse events being in the mild-to-moderate range of severity.
While the language allows syllables to occur without onsets, there appears to be a limit to how many will be tolerated.
Thus, if some scroungers are tolerated (and perhaps provide other benefits), it can still be in producers' interests to continue acquiring food. 14.
