abide

Verb

Verb Forms: abode, abided, abiding, abides

To accept or act in accordance with a rule or decision.
dwell
put up with something or somebody unpleasant
To endure without yielding; to withstand.
To bear patiently.
To pay for; to stand the consequences of.
Used in a phrasal verb: abide by (“to accept and act in accordance with”).
To wait in expectation.
To pause; to delay.
To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
To have one's abode.
To endure; to remain; to last.
To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.

Examples

"I never could abide shoemakers," said an old servant,—and it ended in her marrying one.
The new teacher was strict and the students did not want to abide by his rules.
The old oak tree abides the wind endlessly.
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Origin / Etymology

From Middle English abyden, from Old English ābīdan (“to abide, wait, remain, delay, remain behind; survive; wait for, await; expect”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀbīdan, from Proto-Germanic *uzbīdaną (“to expect, tolerate”), equivalent to a- + bide.
Cognate with Scots abide (“to abide, remain”), Middle High German erbīten (“to await, expect”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌽 (usbeidan, “to expect, await, have patience”). The sense of pay for is due to influence from aby.

Synonyms

bear, bide, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stay, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate, abear, abide, aby, accept, allow, answer for, astand, atone, attend, await, back that train up, bear up, bedwell, belive, bide one's time, carry on, continue, defer, dree, dwell, expect, follow up, forbear, go along with, hang in there, hang on, haunt, hold on, hold one's breath, hold one's horses, hold one's water, hold out, hold the line, hold up, inhabit, keep, keep a stiff upper lip, keep trying, keep up, live, live with, mark time, occupy, pass, persevere, persist, plod, plug, plug away, pocket, pouch, put up with, remain, reside, resist, soldier on, stand by, stay the course, stay the distance, stick, stick by one's guns, stick it out, stick to, stick to one's guns, stick with, stick with it, swallow, take, take sitting down, tarry, tend, thole, twiddle one's thumbs, undergang, undergo, wait, wait for, wait on

Scrabble Score: 8

abide: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
abide: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
abide: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

abide: valid Words With Friends Word