Dictionary

cope with en · VERB

Meanings

1. (transitive) To come to terms with; to overcome any difficulties presented by.
   • Most train operators have reduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicron variant of COVID. 2022 January 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Emergency timetables as absences surge due to COVID”, in RAIL, number 948, page 6:
   • Most staff do not have the skills to cope with such challenging patients, who too often receive "impersonal" care and suffer from boredom, the first National Audit of Dementia found. It says hospitals should introduce "dementia champions. 2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian:
   • The government should implement this policy to cope with this serious problem.
   • When the meteor of conquest allured me too far; / I have coped with the nations which dread me thus lonely, / The last single Captive to millions in war. 1815, Lord Byron, “Napoleon's Farewell”, in The Works of Lord Byron, volume 3, page 427:
   • I was fagged out, and for the first time in years felt a question as to my ability to cope with an antagonist; […] 1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., September 1918, →OCLC:
   • She finds her mental illness very difficult to cope with.

Forms

Synonyms

grapple with (come to terms with) · manage with (come to terms with) · contend with (come to terms with) · come to terms with (come to terms with) · make out with (come to terms with) · deal with (come to terms with) · make do with (come to terms with) · get by with (come to terms with)

Translations (20)

es sobrellevar (come to terms with) · de fertigwerden (come to terms with) · ru справля́ться (come to terms with) · ru совлада́ть (come to terms with) · ru выде́рживать (come to terms with) · ta சமாளி (come to terms with) · cmn 支應 /支应 (come to terms with) · de zurechtkommen (come to terms with) · fi tulla toimeen (come to terms with) · cmn 應付 /应付 (come to terms with) · ru вы́держать (come to terms with) · cmn 對付 /对付 (come to terms with) · de bewältigen (come to terms with) · pl poradzić sobie (come to terms with) · da håndtere (come to terms with) · ru спра́виться (come to terms with) · de verkraften (come to terms with) · de schaffen (come to terms with) · pl radzić sobie (come to terms with) · de umgehen (come to terms with)