Definitions of tolerate

1. To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices.

2. To bear or endure; as, to tolerate a person one does not like; permit; allow without hindering; as, to tolerate abuses.

3. To bear: to endure: to allow by not hindering.

4. To endure; allow.

5. To bear.

6. recognize and respect ( rights and beliefs of others); " The Taliban in Afghanistan do not tolerate religions other than fundamental Islam"

7. Medicine: have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen; " The patient does not tolerate the anti- inflammatory drugs we gave him"

8. have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen; " The patient does not tolerate the anti- inflammatory drugs we gave him"

9. recognize and respect ( rights and beliefs of others); " We must tolerate the religions of others"

10. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian ( see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest.

11. To suffer to be or to be done without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing.

12. To suffer to be; to permit or allow without positive hindrance.

13. Toleration.