ABIDE (abode)

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Irregular inflected form: abode   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does abide mean? 

• ABIDE (verb)
  The verb ABIDE has 2 senses:

1. dwell

2. put up with something or somebody unpleasant

  Familiarity information: ABIDE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABIDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they abide    ... he / she / it abides   
Past simple: abided    / abode   
Past participle: abided    / abode   
-ing form: abiding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dwell

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

abide; bide; stay

Context example:

stay a bit longer--the day is still young

Hypernyms (to "abide" is one way to...):

continue; remain; stay; stay on (continue in a place, position, or situation)

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "abide"):

visit (stay with as a guest)

outstay; overstay (stay too long)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

abidance (the act of dwelling in a place)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put up with something or somebody unpleasant

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

abide; bear; brook; digest; endure; put up; stand; stick out; stomach; suffer; support; tolerate

Context example:

She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage

Hypernyms (to "abide" is one way to...):

allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)

Verb group:

suffer (experience (emotional) pain)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "abide"):

accept; live with; swallow (tolerate or accommodate oneself to)

hold still for; stand for (tolerate or bear)

bear up (endure cheerfully)

take lying down (suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively)

take a joke (listen to a joke at one's own expense)

sit out (endure to the end)

pay (bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot abide Sue

Derivation:

abidance (the act of abiding (enduring without yielding))

 Context examples 

But you will, I hope, soon quit this melancholy abode, for doubtless evidence can easily be brought to free you from the criminal charge.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

We live in a numble abode, Master Copperfield, but have much to be thankful for.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I took care she should never want for anything that could contribute to her comfort: she soon settled in her new abode, became very happy there, and made fair progress in her studies.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She promised as much last week, when I fell into Wilverley bog, and yet she knows that I cannot abide needle-work.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The garden in which stands my humble abode is separated only by a lane from Rosings Park, her ladyship's residence.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The act of abiding by a stated treatment plan or protocol.

(Adherence, NCI Thesaurus)

Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy City merchants, we found the sculpture works for which we searched.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For two days after this I stayed at home, and my wife appeared to abide loyally by our engagement, for, as far as I know, she never stirred out of the house.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For, after all, he had never found his permanent abiding place.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)