put up with

phraseB2Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

To put up with something is to accept something annoying without complaining. Tolerating it, because complaining would achieve nothing.

It is a three-part phrasal verb, which makes it awkward to build sentences with, and the whole thing must stay together. It always implies the thing is unpleasant, so nobody puts up with something they enjoy. Tolerate and bear are the formal equivalents, and endure is stronger. The related phrase is not putting up with something any longer, which is what somebody says just before finally complaining.

Definitions of put up with

1phraseput up withTo tolerate something annoying without protest.B2
“I do not know how she can put up with that noise.”

Also accepted in games: tolerate, bear

Where it comes from

From put up + with.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Phrasal Verbs, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 20 of A Man Called Ove.

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