Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to thole
Participle: tholed
Gerund: tholing
Indicative
Present
| I | thole |
| you | thole |
| he;she;it | tholes |
| we | thole |
| you | thole |
| they | thole |
Perfect
| I | have tholed |
| you | have tholed |
| he;she;it | has tholed |
| we | have tholed |
| you | have tholed |
| they | have tholed |
Past
| I | tholed |
| you | tholed |
| he;she;it | tholed |
| we | tholed |
| you | tholed |
| they | tholed |
Pluperfect
| I | had tholed |
| you | had tholed |
| he;she;it | had tholed |
| we | had tholed |
| you | had tholed |
| they | had tholed |
Future
| I | will thole |
| you | will thole |
| he;she;it | will thole |
| we | will thole |
| you | will thole |
| they | will thole |
Future Perfect
| I | will have tholed |
| you | will have tholed |
| he;she;it | will have tholed |
| we | will have tholed |
| you | will have tholed |
| they | will have tholed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | thole |
| you | thole |
| he;she;it | thole |
| we | thole |
| you | thole |
| they | thole |
Perfect
| I | have tholed |
| you | have tholed |
| he;she;it | have tholed |
| we | have tholed |
| you | have tholed |
| they | have tholed |
Imperfect
| I | tholed |
| you | tholed |
| he;she;it | tholed |
| we | tholed |
| you | tholed |
| they | tholed |
Pluperfect
| I | had tholed |
| you | had tholed |
| he;she;it | had tholed |
| we | had tholed |
| you | had tholed |
| they | had tholed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would thole |
| you | would thole |
| he;she;it | would thole |
| we | would thole |
| you | would thole |
| they | would thole |
Perfect
| I | would have tholed |
| you | would have tholed |
| he;she;it | would have tholed |
| we | would have tholed |
| you | would have tholed |
| they | would have tholed |
Imperative
| you | thole |
| we | Let's thole |
| you | thole |
Verbs conjugated like 'thole'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'thole'
hole,
tole,
choke,
chope,
chore,
coole,
dole,
hale,
hele,
hile,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to endure
- aby, persist, tolerate
- to allow something unpleasant to exist or occur
- abear, abide, aby, accept, allow, bear, bide, brook, dree, endure, forbear, go along with, live with, pass, pocket, pouch, put up with, stand, stick, stomach, suffer, swallow, take sitting down, tolerate, undergang, undergo
- to feel pain
- ache, agonize, anguish, passion, suffer, wark
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "to be subjected to or exposed to, to endure without complaint," now Scottish and Northern Eng. dial., from O.E.
þolian, from P.Gmc. stem
*thul- (cf. O.S.
tholon, O.H.G.
dolon, Ger.
geduld, O.N.
þola, Goth.
þulan), cognate with L.
tolerare (see toleration).
2. From Middle English thōle, from tholen, tholien, from Old English þolian, from Proto-West Germanic *þolēn, from Proto-Germanic *þulāną (“to suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to bear, suffer; to support”), compare Norwegian Bokmål tåle. See: Old English '
þolian', Proto-Germanic '
*þulāną', Norwegian '
tåle'.
Verbs referencing "thole"
Latin
fero, Icelandic
þola, Latin
tollo, Danish
tåle.
Sample Sentences
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Seventy beds keeps he there teeming mothers are wont that they lie for to thole and bring forth bairns hale so God’s angel to Mary quoth. [1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 368:]
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That remark of Edith Van Tromp's, to the effect that the illusions would all be swept away, had its confirmation before we had tholed through the first week of our island captivity. [1922, Francis Lynde, Pirates' Hope, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 115:]
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Nor was long Poſſeſſion in molendino regio, of receiving Multures for all Corns of a Barony promiſcuouſly without exception of Teind, found to bring the Teind under a Thirlage, Except ſuch as tholed Fire and Water there. [1705, William Forbes, “Concerning the Burdens that Tiends are Liable to”, in A Treatise of Church-lands & Tithes, Edinburgh: Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson [i.e., James Anderson], printer to the Queens Most Excellent Majesty; and to be sold at John Vallange's shop, on the north-side of the street, a little above the cross, →OCLC, page 345:]
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Before long Ailie was silent and white, while her mother rimed on about men and their ways. And then she could thole it no longer, but must go out and walk by the burn to cool her hot brow and calm her thoughts, while the witch indoors laughed to herself at her devices. [1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:]
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But then they heard an awful scream that made them leap to their feet, it was as though mother were being torn and torn in the teeth of beasts and couldn't thole it longer; […] [1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon [pseudonym; James Leslie Mitchell], “Ploughing”, in Sunset Song: A Novel (A Scots Quair; 1), London: Jarrolds, →OCLC; republished as Tom Crawford, editor, Sunset Song (Canongate Classics; 12), Edinburgh; New York, N.Y.: Canongate Books, 2008, →ISBN, page 34:]
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While they were enjoying their meal and placidly tholing the cacophony from the wireless set, they saw the first of the Ardmore workers arrive in the café. [1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-gatherers, London: Macdonald, →OCLC; republished as The Cone-gatherers: A Haunting Story of Violence and Love, Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2007, →ISBN, pages 86–87:]
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He knew what they had tholed,
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the long times and troubles they'd come through
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without a leader. [1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 3:]