tolerates
- 1Third-person singular simple present of tolerate.
The committee tolerates dissent as long as the debate stays respectful.
This hardy species tolerates a wide range of temperatures and humidity.
Note
Here the verb always carries an object: a committee tolerates dissent, a plant tolerates frost, but nothing simply tolerates. Both of the verb's meanings travel in this form, grudging allowance of something unwelcome and plain endurance of a hardship. Context tells them apart: a person or institution usually allows, while an organism or material withstands. Every other present-tense subject takes bare tolerate.
tolerates is a form of tolerate
tolerate, verb: To allow or permit something, often something seen as negative, without openly approving of it. Full entry
- Forms
- toleratetolerates he/she/ittolerating -ing formtolerated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- tolerate → tolerates: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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