countenanced
Meaning of countenanced
verb
- To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.
The cruel punishment was countenanced by the government, although it was not officially legal.
Information about countenanced
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of countenanced
coun-te-nanced
- It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
- countenanced is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
countenanced synonyms
Meaning :
approve, sanction, support, tolerate
Words that rhyme with countenanced
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