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Definition of abide in English: abideverb əˈbʌɪdəˈbaɪd 1abide byno object Accept or act in accordance with (a rule, decision, or recommendation) I said I would abide by their decision Example sentencesExamples - If that is if that is a Government decision, we will always abide by the Government decision.
- What could the Supreme Court do if these politicians refused to abide by its decisions?
- The schoolboy was bailed to live where directed by social services and he must abide by any rules.
- It looks like the rebels and the government forces are abiding by the rules so far.
- Firms may be able to cooperate by agreeing to abide by the decisions of an external regulator who can be appointed by the firms.
- The PA said that it had always abided by the decisions of the court.
- The sport of golf is a stickler for abiding by the rules.
- Like true cricketers, we abided by the decision of the match referee.
- Anyone not abiding by the rules risks getting a fine.
- If a majority votes for the strike, they rightly expect the minority to abide by the decision.
- Still, he recommends abiding by the rules of a separation agreement, particularly if a financial payout is at stake.
- I've never been one for abiding by rules that don't interest me.
- But what sect or denomination today abides by that decision?
- If they conclude that they are not, you are expected to abide by their decision and comply with their instructions.
- There was always the arguing, but in the end, the men had made a decision and all had abided by it.
- He said he would abide by the decision of the ANC with regard to whether he was allowed to retire or not.
- I shall tot up the votes on Monday evening, and will abide by the majority decision.
- The serious collector of funny names accepts only those of real people, and abides by certain rules of the game, just as do those who fish for trout.
- I've always believed in abiding by Caucus decisions.
- However, that invitation is made on the strict understanding that one abides by the rules of that club.
Synonyms comply with, obey, observe, follow, keep to, hold to, conform to, adhere to, stick to, stand by, act in accordance with, uphold, heed, pay attention to, agree to/with, consent to, accede to, accept, acquiesce in, go along with, acknowledge, respect, defer to 2can/could not abideinformal with object Be unable to tolerate (someone or something) if there is one thing I cannot abide it is a lack of discipline Example sentencesExamples - But then, when Jesus said that he must undergo suffering and death, Peter simply couldn't abide it.
- ‘God cannot abide sin,’ he explains guilelessly to Read.
- The man who had hoped to segue from comedy returned to the role he hated and the director he couldn't abide.
- What they cannot abide is the suggestion that it was fought on a lie.
- For years Papa operated with a plain desk, which he and Mother shared, but she couldn't stand his clutter and he couldn't abide having his clutter ‘straightened up.’
- As ever, his arrogance and ignorance grated on everyone who cannot abide him, and left those who adore him in raptures.
- Since we'd done a fair amount of sinning together, her efforts came across to me as hypocrisy and I cannot abide a hypocrite.
- I have severe asthma and cannot abide the smoke on most cruise ships.
- Charlie's a good man, yessir, who can't abide cheating at cards.
- Just as nature abhors a vacuum, the city cannot abide a void.
- Her mother said that she couldn't abide Eliza's ‘negativity.’
- I can't abide lies from people I love.
- Nothing satisfies these people, because now they cannot abide clarity in anyone but themselves.
- Every totalitarian regime makes war on religion precisely because it cannot abide any god besides itself.
- She left out the glacé cherries because she couldn't abide the sticky things, substituting dates, which she loved.
- But by nature, Kirstie couldn't abide things ‘hanging in the air’, as it were.
- Yet we're sent on team-building conferences where the person we cannot abide appoints themselves as leader.
- At the same time, he couldn't abide facile equations between criminal desperadoes and the legalized murder machinery of a state.
- And I cannot abide the two-party system, so I'll be voting Lib Dem.
- Because they are miserable themselves, they cannot abide the happiness of others.
Synonyms tolerate, bear, stand, put up with, endure, suffer, accept, cope with, live with, brook, support, take, countenance, face, handle informal stick, swallow, stomach, hack, wear 3no object (of a feeling or memory) continue without fading or being lost. at least one memory will abide Example sentencesExamples - As the dreams unfold, we may start to recognize specifics of place, but the sense of Central Park as a lost Arcadia abides.
- The very medium of mutual understanding abides in a peculiar half-transcendence.
- For those of us privileged to have been in Walsh Park last Wednesday evening the memories of a marvellous occasion for Waterford football will abide.
- As a result of our tumultuousness, there abides in the American psyche an idea so powerful it ennobles us, and lifts us high above the problems which beset us.
- They will have to learn these things, and have opportunity to learn them, precisely because, by God's grace, ‘love abides.’
- How can faith and fear abide in the face of this avalanche of enlightenment, this flash-flood of knowledge and exposure to everything that once had been only Our secrets?
- For times when grief and loss abide within consciousness, a book like this can be sustaining because it is permission to be devastated within the promise of consolation.
- In the hills and valleys the memory of the echoes of the old anthem abides.
- But unless his reactionary vision begins to be actively countered, that is the impression that will abide.
- This proves to be very difficult because underneath all of the anger and pain, love still abides.
- Tell them that faith, hope and love, these abide, but the greatest of all is love.
- This interest abided with Jim all through his life.
- Though the new chief would be ‘his man’, it is not clear how long such loyalties would abide.
- True love abides and can make it through rough patches and conflict.
- One memory abides of when, at a very tender age and against the tide, he took up Irish dancing.
- In the meantime, ‘homeland security’ anxieties abide in many American households.
- Christianity can dispense with ‘cosmologies and systems’ as love abides and descends into mundane existence.
- He asseverated that faith empowers, faith abides, faith surmounts every obstacle.
- Still, let the memory abide of him chewing the ends of his moustache.
- There's no doubting the love that abides between her and her husband and kids.
Synonyms continue, remain, survive, last, persist, stay, hold on, live on - 3.1archaic Live; dwell.
many unskilful Men do abide in our City of London Example sentencesExamples - The Elder says, ‘Those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them’.
- A central tenet of Shintoism is the concept of kami, spirits that abide in and are worshipped at shrines, representing human beings and things found in nature.
- You did not read books through; you dwelt, abided between their lines and reopening them after an interval.
- When harmony persists in the home, harmony abides in the community, and harmony exists in the country.
- Where does the consciousness abide before it takes rebirth or becomes liberated?
Synonyms reside, live, have one's home, have one's residence, be settled, be housed, lodge, stay
Derivatives noun əˈbʌɪd(ə)ns The purpose is to promote freedom of expression, which is complemented by its abidance to uncompromising discipline. Example sentencesExamples - What are you comparing, the laxity in enforcement or the law abidance?
- This degree of strict abidance may be variable between different groups, but those at the helm of the grassroots movements take it seriously.
- By Monday, well before the deadline for abidance, their first flank capitulated.
- When the circumstances giving rise to the duress subside, they must return to law abidance as soon as reasonably practicable.
Origin Old English ābīdan 'wait', from ā- 'onwards' + bīdan (see bide). Rhymes applied, aside, astride, backslide, beside, bestride, betide, bide, bride, chide, Clyde, cockeyed, coincide, collide, confide, cried, decide, divide, dried, elide, five-a-side, glide, guide, hide, hollow-eyed, I'd, implied, lied, misguide, nationwide, nide, offside, onside, outride, outside, pan-fried, pied, pie-eyed, pitch-side, popeyed, pride, provide, ride, Said, shied, side, slide, sloe-eyed, snide, square-eyed, starry-eyed, statewide, Strathclyde, stride, subdivide, subside, tide, tried, undyed, wall-eyed, wide, worldwide Definition of abide in US English: abideverbəˈbaɪdəˈbīd 1abide byno object Accept or act in accordance with (a rule, decision, or recommendation) I said I would abide by their decision Example sentencesExamples - The schoolboy was bailed to live where directed by social services and he must abide by any rules.
- Firms may be able to cooperate by agreeing to abide by the decisions of an external regulator who can be appointed by the firms.
- If that is if that is a Government decision, we will always abide by the Government decision.
- The serious collector of funny names accepts only those of real people, and abides by certain rules of the game, just as do those who fish for trout.
- However, that invitation is made on the strict understanding that one abides by the rules of that club.
- If a majority votes for the strike, they rightly expect the minority to abide by the decision.
- There was always the arguing, but in the end, the men had made a decision and all had abided by it.
- But what sect or denomination today abides by that decision?
- If they conclude that they are not, you are expected to abide by their decision and comply with their instructions.
- The PA said that it had always abided by the decisions of the court.
- I've always believed in abiding by Caucus decisions.
- He said he would abide by the decision of the ANC with regard to whether he was allowed to retire or not.
- Anyone not abiding by the rules risks getting a fine.
- Still, he recommends abiding by the rules of a separation agreement, particularly if a financial payout is at stake.
- Like true cricketers, we abided by the decision of the match referee.
- What could the Supreme Court do if these politicians refused to abide by its decisions?
- I shall tot up the votes on Monday evening, and will abide by the majority decision.
- It looks like the rebels and the government forces are abiding by the rules so far.
- I've never been one for abiding by rules that don't interest me.
- The sport of golf is a stickler for abiding by the rules.
Synonyms comply with, obey, observe, follow, keep to, hold to, conform to, adhere to, stick to, stand by, act in accordance with, uphold, heed, pay attention to, agree to, agree with, consent to, accede to, accept, acquiesce in, go along with, acknowledge, respect, defer to 2can/could not abideinformal with object Be unable to tolerate (someone or something) if there is one thing I cannot abide it is a lack of discipline Example sentencesExamples - Because they are miserable themselves, they cannot abide the happiness of others.
- Yet we're sent on team-building conferences where the person we cannot abide appoints themselves as leader.
- The man who had hoped to segue from comedy returned to the role he hated and the director he couldn't abide.
- Just as nature abhors a vacuum, the city cannot abide a void.
- But by nature, Kirstie couldn't abide things ‘hanging in the air’, as it were.
- But then, when Jesus said that he must undergo suffering and death, Peter simply couldn't abide it.
- At the same time, he couldn't abide facile equations between criminal desperadoes and the legalized murder machinery of a state.
- Her mother said that she couldn't abide Eliza's ‘negativity.’
- Charlie's a good man, yessir, who can't abide cheating at cards.
- For years Papa operated with a plain desk, which he and Mother shared, but she couldn't stand his clutter and he couldn't abide having his clutter ‘straightened up.’
- I can't abide lies from people I love.
- As ever, his arrogance and ignorance grated on everyone who cannot abide him, and left those who adore him in raptures.
- And I cannot abide the two-party system, so I'll be voting Lib Dem.
- What they cannot abide is the suggestion that it was fought on a lie.
- I have severe asthma and cannot abide the smoke on most cruise ships.
- Nothing satisfies these people, because now they cannot abide clarity in anyone but themselves.
- She left out the glacé cherries because she couldn't abide the sticky things, substituting dates, which she loved.
- ‘God cannot abide sin,’ he explains guilelessly to Read.
- Since we'd done a fair amount of sinning together, her efforts came across to me as hypocrisy and I cannot abide a hypocrite.
- Every totalitarian regime makes war on religion precisely because it cannot abide any god besides itself.
Synonyms tolerate, bear, stand, put up with, endure, suffer, accept, cope with, live with, brook, support, take, countenance, face, handle 3no object (of a feeling or memory) continue without fading or being lost. Example sentencesExamples - For those of us privileged to have been in Walsh Park last Wednesday evening the memories of a marvellous occasion for Waterford football will abide.
- How can faith and fear abide in the face of this avalanche of enlightenment, this flash-flood of knowledge and exposure to everything that once had been only Our secrets?
- He asseverated that faith empowers, faith abides, faith surmounts every obstacle.
- Though the new chief would be ‘his man’, it is not clear how long such loyalties would abide.
- One memory abides of when, at a very tender age and against the tide, he took up Irish dancing.
- Still, let the memory abide of him chewing the ends of his moustache.
- But unless his reactionary vision begins to be actively countered, that is the impression that will abide.
- There's no doubting the love that abides between her and her husband and kids.
- Tell them that faith, hope and love, these abide, but the greatest of all is love.
- This interest abided with Jim all through his life.
- Christianity can dispense with ‘cosmologies and systems’ as love abides and descends into mundane existence.
- In the hills and valleys the memory of the echoes of the old anthem abides.
- For times when grief and loss abide within consciousness, a book like this can be sustaining because it is permission to be devastated within the promise of consolation.
- The very medium of mutual understanding abides in a peculiar half-transcendence.
- In the meantime, ‘homeland security’ anxieties abide in many American households.
- As a result of our tumultuousness, there abides in the American psyche an idea so powerful it ennobles us, and lifts us high above the problems which beset us.
- As the dreams unfold, we may start to recognize specifics of place, but the sense of Central Park as a lost Arcadia abides.
- They will have to learn these things, and have opportunity to learn them, precisely because, by God's grace, ‘love abides.’
- True love abides and can make it through rough patches and conflict.
- This proves to be very difficult because underneath all of the anger and pain, love still abides.
Synonyms continue, remain, survive, last, persist, stay, hold on, live on - 3.1archaic Live; dwell.
Example sentencesExamples - Where does the consciousness abide before it takes rebirth or becomes liberated?
- You did not read books through; you dwelt, abided between their lines and reopening them after an interval.
- When harmony persists in the home, harmony abides in the community, and harmony exists in the country.
- A central tenet of Shintoism is the concept of kami, spirits that abide in and are worshipped at shrines, representing human beings and things found in nature.
- The Elder says, ‘Those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them’.
Synonyms reside, live, have one's home, have one's residence, be settled, be housed, lodge, stay
Origin Old English ābīdan ‘wait’, from ā- ‘onwards’ + bīdan (see bide). |