(a) To bear or stand (pain), to endure (sorrow, affliction); to afford (an expenditure); (b) to bear with (a person), to tolerate; to endure patiently (an injury, etc.), to put up with; intr. to be patient, tolerant, or lenient.

(a) To abstain from (a vice), to refrain from (doing something);--often with infin. or with that clause; also intr.; (b) forbering, abstaining, moderate.

To restrain (a person), to control (something); refl. to restrain oneself.

To give up (a lawsuit), to cease and desist; to stop (fighting).

(a) To spare (a person), refrain from killing or injuring; to spare (property), refrain from destroying or pillaging; (b) to have regard for (someone's presence), show due respect for (something); (c) to exempt (someone from a duty, a task, a tax or exaction).

(a) To forego, relinquish, give up, part with, or lose (something); to become separated from (companions); (b) to do without (someone), dispense with (something).

(a) To omit (something), to overlook or pass over (someone), to leave out; (b) to avoid (something), to shun, escape; (c) to neglect or fail to do (something); (d) to refuse or withhold (something).