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cope verb

/kəʊp/US pronunciation symbol/koʊp/ v [I]
to deal successfully with a difficult situation
It must be difficult to cope with three small children and a job.
The tyres on my car don't cope very well on wet roads.
He had so much pressure on him in his job that eventually he just couldn't cope.

(Definition of cope verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

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