0 past simple and past participle of cope
1 to deal successfully with a difficult situation:
The hostages had been confined for so long that they couldn't cope with the outside world.
Get a good night's sleep and you'll feel better able to cope.
The teacher said that he found it difficult to cope with a class of disaffected teenagers.
The emergency services are working at full stretch today to cope with the accident.
I spoke to him as one man who had coped with devastation to another.
Just how the parish coped with this debt, and how swiftly they were able to repay it, is not recorded.
Their information needs were variable, reflecting the individual ways in which patients coped with their illness.
