0 past simple and past participle of tolerate --
1 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.
2 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.
Commanding officers on both sides would scarcely have tolerated longer-term co-operation.
This was well tolerated for three hours, when a sudden decrease of cardiac output was observed.
All infants tolerated the increase in left ventricular pressure work well.
An oft-quoted example is chastity for religious reasons - which goes against the precepts of the natural law, but can be still tolerated, even celebrated.
This latter patient experienced increasing hypotension during the initial infusion, but a second trial 1 day later was tolerated without adverse effects.
If pressure is low, mutations of late-acting genes are tolerated because they affect biological fitness and reproduction only marginally.
This technique is generally well tolerated with toxicity similar to those experienced from high dose pelvic external beam radiotherapy.
The citalopram appeared to be well tolerated with many quality-of-life and potential toxicity symptoms much improved compared to the baseline week.
