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# cope

«cope» in Mova's school dictionary: **to deal well with a hard problem or situation, and to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (cope, copes, coped, coping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To cope means to deal well with a hard problem or situation, and to keep going. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cope/#m1)

2) To cope with work or a job means to manage to do it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cope/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and wellbeing lessons, children learn ways to cope with worry, anger, change or loss: talk to someone, breathe slowly, take a break. In stories a character copes with a disaster or a new school. Phrases: cope with, can't cope, learn to cope, coping skills.

### examples

- She coped well with moving to a new school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cope/#x1)
- How do you cope with being nervous before a test? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cope/#x2)
- Mum couldn't cope with all the noise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cope/#x3)
- The small hospital could not cope with so many patients. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cope/#x4)
- Talking to a friend helps me cope when I'm sad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cope/#x5)
- The bridge could not cope with the heavy trucks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cope/#x6)
- We are learning coping skills in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cope/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: coped, coping (drop the e). Usually «cope with» something. It is all right to say «I can't cope» and ask for help.

### In the corpora

- [Fostering is looking after a child from another family for a while, when their own parents cannot cope for now.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/13/)
- [Grown-ups get tired and worried too, even when they look as if they are coping with everything.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/0/)
- [Flooded paddy fields, built as steps on hills, drown many weeds that cannot cope.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world/2/)
- ["Self-medicating" means using alcohol or drugs to cope with problems instead of getting proper help.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/6/)
- [Being laughed at often makes autistic children's stress much worse, while kindness helps them cope.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences/23/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cope» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cope/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.