Tolerate vs Insure - What's the difference?
tolerate | insure |
To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference.
To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.
To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance
(chiefly, US) : To make sure or certain of; guarantee.
* 1787 , ,
: To give confidence in the trustworthiness of.
As verbs the difference between tolerate and insure
is that tolerate is to allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference while insure is to provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.tolerate
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Verb
(tolerat)- I like the way he plays the guitar, but I can't tolerate his voice when he sings.
- I can tolerate working on Saturdays, but not on Sundays.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeSynonyms
* allow, bear, , endure, live with, put up withExternal links
* * * ----insure
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Verb
- I'm not insured against burglary.
- ''We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
- He insured me that there would be no further delays.