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abide
abideverbCollocations from other entriesCollocations from the corpusActivator 1 2Phrases from this entryPhrases from other entriesCorpus examplesabideabidesabidedabodeabidingabidea‧bide /E™EˆbaE?d/
verbLanguage: Old English
Origin: abidan, from bidan; → BIDE
Verb form1somebody can’t abide somebody/somethingSTAND/BEAR
used to say that someone dislikes someone or something very much:
I can’t abide that man – he’s so self-satisfied.satisfy2LIVE SOMEWHERE (past tense abode /E™EˆbE™E?d $ E™EˆboE?d/) [intransitive always + adverb/preposition]old use
to live somewhereabide by
something
phrasal verb
OBEYto accept and obey a decision, rule, agreement etc, even though you may not agree with it:
You have to abide by the referee’s decision.