Definition of abide

"abide" in the verb sense

1. bide, abide, stay

dwell

"You can stay with me while you are in town"

"stay a bit longer

2. digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up

put up with something or somebody unpleasant

"I cannot bear his constant criticism"

"The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"

"he learned to tolerate the heat"

"She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

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Quotations for abide

Things well fitted abide. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A scabbed horse cannot abide the comb. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

This life is but the passage of a day,
This life is but a pang and all is over;
But in the life to come which fades not away
Every love shall abide and every lover. [ Christina G. Rossetti ]

What fates impose, that men must needs abide;
It boots not to resist both wind and tide. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that cannot abide a bad market deserves not a good one. [ Proverb ]

If you can abide a curst wife, you need not fear any company. [ Proverb ]

No man doth safely appear abroad but he who can abide at home. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

He that can abide a curst wife need not fear what company he lives in. [ Proverb ]

The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied. [ Bible ]

What fate imposes, men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind find tide. [ Shakespeare ]

Care seeks out wrinkled brows and hollow eyes, and builds himself caves to abide in them. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art. [ Thoreau ]

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred. [ Edward Everett ]

She was in the lovely bloom and spring-time of womanhood; at the age when, if ever angels be for God's good purpose enthroned in mortal form, they may be, without impiety, supposed to abide in such as hers. [ Dickens ]

abide in Scrabble®

The word abide is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters abide:

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abide in Words With Friends™

The word abide is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters abide:

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Words within the letters of abide

2 letter words in abide (5 words)

3 letter words in abide (7 words)

4 letter words in abide (5 words)

5 letter words in abide (1 word)

Words containing the sequence abide

Words that start with abide (5 words)

Words with abide in them (3 words)

Words that end with abide (1 word)

Word Growth involving abide

Shorter words in abide

ab

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Longer words containing abide

abided

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abider rabider

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