take abuse
Frequency: 6.55.9 per million words
To endure or tolerate abuse.
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Examples (10)
- No employee should have to take abuse from a manager.
- She had taken emotional abuse for years before she finally sought help.
- As a public figure, he has to take constant abuse on social media.
- The referee took a lot of abuse from the crowd after the controversial call.
- I'm not going to take this abuse any longer; I'm reporting it.
- Retail workers often have to take verbal abuse from angry customers.
- He kept taking the abuse, hoping things would eventually get better.
- Why did you take that kind of abuse for so long without saying anything?
- The victims testified that they were forced to take physical abuse on a daily basis.
- She made it clear that she will not take any form of abuse from anyone.