a·bide 
(ə-bīd)
(ə-bīd)v. a·bode (ə-bōd) or a·bid·ed, a·bid·ing, a·bides
v.tr.
1. To put up with; tolerate: can't abide such incompetence. See Synonyms at endure.
2. To wait patiently for: "I will abide the coming of my lord" (Tennyson).
v.intr.
Idiom: 1. To remain in a place: "I'll call upon you straight. Abide within" (Shakespeare).
2. To continue in existence; endure: "I have decided my life can't be about absence, what I don't have, what does not abide, and the rich grief it brings" (Amy Benson).
3. To dwell or reside.
abide by
To conform to; comply with: abide by the rules.
[Middle English abiden, from Old English ābīdan : ā-, intensive pref. + bīdan, to remain; see bheidh- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
a·bider n.
- excitotoxic
- excitotoxin
- excl.
- exclaim
- exclaimer
- exclamation
- exclamation point
- exclamatory
- exclave
- excludability
- excludable
- exclude
- excluder
- excludible
- exclusion
- exclusionary
- exclusionary rule
- exclusionism
- exclusionist
- exclusionistic
- exclusion principle
- exclusive
- exclusive disjunction
- exclusively
- exclusiveness