stomach
/ˈstʌmək/ verb C2- To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something. · I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.· I can't stomach her cooking.
He/she/it stomachs · Past stomached · Past participle stomached · -ing form stomaching
Verb forms
- Base form
- stomach
- He/she/it
- stomachs
- Past
- stomached
- Past participle
- stomached
- -ing form
- stomaching
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Danglars’ stomach felt so empty, that it seemed as if it would be impossible ever to fill it again; still he had patience for another half-hour, which appeared to him like a century.
Soon afterwards suffering great pain in his stomach, he said, “I deserve all this torment, for my folly in thinking that everything round must be an egg.”
When there, a fresh altercation arose between them, in the course of which Drebber received a blow from the stick, in the pit of the stomach, perhaps, which killed him without leaving any mark.
“It’ll ruin her teeth and stomach.
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