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堪こらえる

rarely used kanji formusually written using kana aloneIchidan verbverb (generic)transitive verb

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こらえる

Meanings

to bear, to stand, to endure, to put up with
to restrain, to control, to keep a check on
to forgive, to put up with, to pardon

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Example sentences

痛いたみをこらえながら、最後さいごまで走はしり続つづけた。

While enduring the pain, I kept running until the very end.

彼女かのじょの冗談じょうだんが面白おもしろすぎて、笑わらいをこらえられなかった。

Her joke was so funny that I couldn't hold back my laughter.

上司じょうしに理不尽りふじんなことを言いわれても、怒いかりをこらえるしかない。

Even when my boss says unreasonable things, I have no choice but to restrain my anger.

涙なみだをこらえようとしたが、とうとう泣ないてしまった。

I tried to hold back my tears, but I ended up crying after all.

長年ながねんの恨うらみをこらえ、彼かれはただ黙だまって相手あいての言葉ことばを聞きいていた。

Suppressing years of resentment, he simply listened in silence to what the other person had to say.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)