cope
verb /kəʊp/
/kəʊp/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they cope | /kəʊp/ /kəʊp/ |
| he / she / it copes | /kəʊps/ /kəʊps/ |
| past simple coped | /kəʊpt/ /kəʊpt/ |
| past participle coped | /kəʊpt/ /kəʊpt/ |
| -ing form coping | /ˈkəʊpɪŋ/ /ˈkəʊpɪŋ/ |
- to deal successfully with something difficult synonym manage
- I got to the stage where I wasn't coping any more.
- cope with something He wasn't able to cope with the stresses and strains of the job.
- Desert plants are adapted to cope with extreme heat.
Extra ExamplesTopics Successb2- She copes very well under pressure.
- She had to cope without any help.
- She is unable to cope with her increasing workload.
- She was struggling to cope with the demands of a new baby.
- Some people find unemployment very difficult to cope with.
- Will the prison system cope adequately with the increasing numbers of prisoners?
- Everyone finds different ways of coping with bereavement.
- I got to the stage where I just couldn't cope any more.
- In heavy rain the system can't cope and it floods.
- The family is learning to cope without a car.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- admirably
- effectively
- well
- …
- be able
- can
- be unable to
- …
- with
- somebody’s ability to cope
- a way of coping
Word Originverb Middle English (in the sense ‘meet in battle, come to blows’): from Old French coper, colper, from cop, colp ‘a blow’, via Latin from Greek kolaphos ‘blow with the fist’.