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Coped

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cope 1  (kp)
intr.v. coped, cop·ing, copes
1. To contend or strive, especially on even terms or with success: coping with child rearing and a full-time job.
2. To contend with difficulties and act to overcome them: "Facing unprecedented problems, the Federal Reserve of the early 1930s couldn't cope" Robert J. Samuelson.
[Middle English copen, coupen, to strike, from Old French couper, from Vulgar Latin *colpre, from Late Latin colpus, blow; see coup.]
coper n.
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And they must be coped with to some extent, because they all enclose documents (they call their scraps documents; but they are, as to papers deserving the name, what minced veal is to a calf), the non-return of which would be their ruin.
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
It was impossible that any of the Malays or lascars could have done the thing, and there were no other creatures, brute or human, upon the island large enough to have coped even for an instant with the ferocious brutality of the dead monster, except--von Horn's brain came to a sudden halt at the thought.
The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Without, the houses were all cleanly roofed with snow; the garden walls were coped with it a foot in height; the greens lay glittering.
Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
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