Meaning

1 senses

  1. (informal)To endure (a hardship or challenge) by being tough: relying on one's toughness.

    Near-synonyms: face it out, stick it out

    When their main crop failed because of drought, they had no choice but to tough it out: they lived in poverty that winter.

Examples

8 sentences

  1. We need to be tough to survive out there.

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  2. When times are tough, you find out who your friends are.

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  3. It's tough out there.

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  4. There's a saying that when times get tough, you find out who your friends are.

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  5. Things are tough out there.

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Forms

toughs out, toughing out, toughed out, toughed out
Base formtough out · to tough out
3rd person singulartoughs out
Present participletoughing out
Past simpletoughed out
Past participletoughed out

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytough out
he, she, ittoughs out

Past simpleLesson

all personstoughed out

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave toughed out
he, she, ithas toughed out

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tough out

Synonyms

3 synonyms
tough it outface outstick it out

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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