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If something is intolerable, it is so bad that you can't stand it. You don't want to live with it because it is too terrible. You will try to escape it or change it.
Because of the famine, there was little food, and life became intolerable for many people.The mosquitoes outside were intolerable. They wouldn't leave us alone, so we went inside the house.The way my brother sometimes eats with his mouth open is intolerable to me. I can't look at him when he does it. |
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intolerably (adv.), intolerableness (n.) |
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