Cope With

Definition: Cope With

Cope With

Verb

1. Satisfy or fulfill; "meet a need"; "this job doesn't match my dreams".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Cope With

Contention

Compete with, cope with, vie with, race with; outvie, emulate, rival; run a race; contend; for, stipulate for, stickle for; insist upon, make a point of.

Equality

Verb: be equal; Adjective: equal, match,reach, keep pace with, run abreast; come to, amount to, come up to; be on a level with, lie on a level with; balance; cope with; come to the same thing.

Opposition

Verb: oppose, counteract, run counter to; withstand; (resist); control; (restrain); hinder; antagonize, oppugn, fly in the face of, go dead against, kick against, fall afoul of, run afoul of; set against, pit against; face, confront, cope with; make a stand, make a dead set against; set oneself against, set one's face against; protest against, vote against, raise one;s voice against; disfavor, turn one's back upon; set at naught, slap in the face, slam the door in one's face.

Crosswords: Cope With

And the basic idea is to cope with the very costly damage and depreciation which can occur. (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

I mean, it's easier to lose yourself in drugs than it is to cope with life. (Se7en; writing credit: Andrew Kevin Walker)

Or if they do come again, perhaps Man will have advanced enough to cope with them, and those that made them. (The Creeping Terror; writing credit: Arthur Ross; Robert Silliphant)

Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own lookout. (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)

Grace is the divine ability to cope with every circumstance. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Helping Your Child Cope With Depression and Suicidal Thoughts (The Jossey-Bass Psychology Series) (reference)

• 'I Want to Kill Myself': Helping Your Child Cope With Depression and Suicidal Thoughts (reference)

• The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope With Mental Illness (reference)

• The Parent's Guide to Children's Congenital Heart Defects: What They Are, How to Treat Them, How to Cope With Them (reference)

• Easing the Teasing : Helping Your Child Cope with Name-Calling, Ridicule, and Verbal Bullying (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In her mother she lost the only person able to cope with her.

In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Perhaps they fear they cannot cope with new situations. (references)

People who eat well are better able to cope with side effects. (references)

Counseling may also help a woman identify and cope with sexual concerns. (references)

Business

The existing medical facilities in Pakistan are not sufficient to cope with the demand. (references)

American companies have to cope with cheap, lower quality imports from Europe and East Asian countries. (references)

Foreign truck producers need to be mindful of size to cope with the limitations of the British road system, and of fuel economy. (references)

Children

Kyrgyz Republic

Traditional social safety measures were inadequate to cope with the social pressures that affect families. (references)

Venezuela

The authorities in Caracas and several other jurisdictions tried to cope with the phenomenon of street children by continuing to impose curfews for unsupervised minors. (references)

Lithuania

During the year, the ombudsman called for streamlining the children's rights protection system and mobilizing central government and local authorities to cope with growing juvenile delinquency and spreading drug addiction. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ecuador

The Government and the UNHCR have developed a plan to cope with a potential refugee influx into Sucumbios province of up to 10,000 persons. (references)

Economic History

Saudi Arabia

A job growth rate above 6% per annum will be necessary to cope with the population increase. (references)

Yemen

With a rapidly increasing population, the government's water supply agencies cannot cope with rising demand. (references)

Human Rights

Lithuania

It is assumed widely that law enforcement agencies have increased the use of a range of surveillance methods to cope with the expansion of organized crime. (references)

Lithuania

In practice the right to counsel is abridged by the shortage of trained lawyers, who find it difficult to cope with the burgeoning numbers of criminal cases brought before the courts. (references)

Luxembourg

A report commissioned by the Government cited poor management, rampant drug use, and an insufficient number of trained personnel at the prison to cope with the inmates' medical and psychological problems. (references)

Minorities

China

Graduates of these schools typically need 1 year or more of intensive Chinese before they can cope with course work at a Chinese-language university. (references)

Political Economy

NIGERIA

The result of this enhanced inspection regime has been severe port congestion as ports lack the facilities to cope with the widely expanded operations. (references)

CHINA

Meanwhile, in an effort to cope with a slowing economy and relatively weak external demand, China continued its reform efforts in 2000 and 2001. Some of the policies adopted have improved market access for U.S. goods and services. (references)

Trade

Ecuador

In December of 1998, the Deposits Insurance Agency (AGD) was formed to cope with a growing number of bank failures and liquidity problems, and to implement necessary and comprehensive banking reforms and controls. (references)

Women

Mongolia

Although women's groups advocate new statutes to cope with domestic violence, there is no known police or government intervention in cases involving violence against women beyond prosecution under existing criminal laws after formal charges have been filed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "cope with": able to cope with life ♦ be unable to cope with ♦ cope with one's job ♦ cope with smb. ♦ i can't cope with it ♦ unable to cope with life. Additional references.

Albanian

përballoj (beard, breast, confront, cope, cover, envisage, face, front, outride, outstay, reckon with, stick out, stick to, wear, withstand). (various references)

Bulgarian 

справям се с (account for, cut, dispose of, hack, handle, meet, reckon with, touch). (various references)

Czech

mìřit se s. (various references)

Dutch

kunnen doen (be able to cope with, be able to do), afkunnen (be able to cope with, be able to handle), aankunnen (be able to cope with, be able to do, be able to match with, be stronger than). (various references)

Esperanto

povi tutfari (be able to cope with, be able to handle), povi fari (be able to cope with, be able to do). (various references)

Finnish

suoriutua (get along, manage), selviytyä (clear, come off, get out of, pull through). (various references)

French

ils fournissent une aide accrue � des pays limitrophes de l'Afrique du Sud, pour mieux permettre � ceux-ci de faire face aux problèmes spécifiques résultant de leur situation géographique particulière (they are stepping up aid to South Africa's neighbours to help them cope with the problems inherent in their particular geographical situation). (various references)

German

verkraften (afford, face, manage, take), bewältigen (cope, deal with, defeat, exceed, manage, overcome, surpass, to cope, to master, win over). (various references)

Greek 

τα βγάζω πέρα (carry it off, carry through, get by, make ends meet). (various references)

Hungarian

szembeszáll valakivel (brave). (various references)

Pig Latin

opecay ithway

Portuguese

superar (bear down, beat, better, cap, clear away, defeat, exceed, outgrow, outrival, overcome, overmatch, paragon, ride out, surmount, surpass, vanquish), lidar com. (various references)

Romanian

ţine piept (stand at bay, stand up to). (various references)

Russian 

ладить с (hit it off with). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izaći na kraj (get away). (various references)

Spanish

enfrentarse con (be faced with, cope). (various references)

Swedish

mäta sig med (touch), klara (clear). (various references)

Ukrainian

справитися (cope, dispatch, manage), подолати (bear down, cope, outdo, overbear, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, whop), перебороти (overbear, overcome, silence). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: potiche.

-2 letters: cowpie, ophite, photic, poetic.

-3 letters: epoch, ethic, optic, pewit, picot, pitch, tophe, tophi, topic, towie, twice, wecht, whipt, white, witch, withe.

-4 letters: chew, chip, chit, chop, chow, cite, cope, cote, echo, epic, etch, etic, hope, howe, itch, otic, pech, phew, phot, pice, pith, poet, thew, thio, tope, toph, topi, wept, whet, whip.

+2 letters: pitchwomen.