laugh, adapt, breathe, reframe, resign oneself to, accept, work with, practice, manage, maintain, adjust (one's attitude/expectation), hold to, meditate, pray, rise above, challenge (oneself/others), refuse to (whine/lose hope), muster, summon up, humor (oneself/others)

reach out, repair, negotiate, compromise, modify, tone down, temper, improvise, yield, comply, tread lightly, accommodate, buck up, win over, compensate, revise, back off/away, cut (off), immerse, curb (excesses), soften (the tone), roll with, bring to, draw upon, befriend, oblige, appease, modulate, acculturate, mitigate, familiarize oneself, conciliate, pacify, placate, amend, man up

raise, push up, lift, float, swim, hold up, support, buoy, keep afloat

pull, grab, force, slam, drag, ripple, suck, rinse, slap against, wash up against, wash up on

crash, drop, splutter, ping, churn, suck, sing, tinkle, swish, splatter, thunder, splash, drip, dribble, sputter, purl, gush, slosh, swoosh, drizzle, fizz, babble, plop, bubble up, gurgle (of a stream), burble, whish, murmur, whoosh, plosh