tolerating
- 1Present participle and gerund of tolerate.
Local residents grew tired of tolerating the constant construction noise.
Tolerating dissent is essential to any healthy democracy.
Note
One -ing form does two jobs here. After be it builds the progressive (we are tolerating it), and as a gerund it fills noun slots, such as the subject of a sentence or the object after of or by. Because tolerate is transitive, both uses need an object. Both meanings carry over unchanged: allowing something disliked without endorsing it, and simply withstanding it, as a plant tolerating frost.
tolerating is a form of tolerate
tolerate, verb: To allow or permit something, often something seen as negative, without openly approving of it. Full entry
- Spelling
- tolerate → tolerating: drop the e, add -ing
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