cope verb, nounBrE /kəʊp/
NAmE /koʊp/
verb
verb forms
| present simple |
| I / you / we /they | cope |
| BrE /kəʊp/ |
| NAmE /koʊp/ |
| he / she /it | copes |
| BrE /kəʊps/ |
| NAmE /koʊps/ |
| past simple, past participle | coped |
| BrE /kəʊpt/ |
| NAmE /koʊpt/ |
| -ing form | coping |
| BrE /kəʊpɪŋ/ |
| NAmE /koʊpɪŋ/ |
word origin
cope v. Middle English (in the sense ‘meet in battle, come to blows’): from Old French coper, colper, from cop, colp ‘a blow’, via Latin from Greek kolaphos ‘blow with the fist’. n. Middle English (denoting a long outdoor cloak): from medieval Latin capa, variant of late Latin cappa (see cap and cape ‘short cloak’).
thesaurus
cope verb [I]
He finds it hard to cope with stress.manage 
get by get on | especially BrE muddle through
cope/manage/get by/get on/muddle through without sth manage/get by on sth cope/manage/get on on your ownCope or manage? The subject of manage in this meaning is always a person; the subject of cope may be a person, thing or system:
In heavy rain the drainage system can't cope. 
In heavy rain the drainage system can 't manage. 
example bank
She copes very well under pressure.She had to cope without any help.She is unable to cope with her increasing workload.She was struggling to cope with the demands of a new baby.Some people find unemployment very difficult to cope with.Will the prison system cope adequately with the increasing numbers of prisoners?a way of coping with bereavementEveryone finds different ways of coping with bereavement.He wasn't able to cope with the stresses and strains of the job.I got to the stage where I just couldn't cope any more.In heavy rain the system can't cope and it floods.The family is learning to cope without a car. [intransitive] to deal successfully with sth difficult 
manageI got to the stage where I wasn't coping any more.~ with sth He wasn't able to cope with the stresses and strains of the job.Desert plants are adapted to cope with extreme heat. noun word origin
cope v. Middle English (in the sense ‘meet in battle, come to blows’): from Old French coper, colper, from cop, colp ‘a blow’, via Latin from Greek kolaphos ‘blow with the fist’. n. Middle English (denoting a long outdoor cloak): from medieval Latin capa, variant of late Latin cappa (see cap and cape ‘short cloak’).
a long loose piece of clothing worn by priests on special occasions
