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"tolerate" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often bear (4 letters).
Definitions
put up with something or somebody unpleasant
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin tolerātus, the perfect passive participle of tolerō (“to endure”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with Old English þolian (“to tolerate, suffer, bear”) and French tolérer. More at thole.
Used in a sentence
“The party tolerated corruption within its ranks.”
“I can tolerate working on Saturday, but not Sunday.”
“The elevator can tolerate up to 360 kilograms.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Allow without protest”8 letters
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