abear
/əˈbɛə/US/əˈbɛɹ/
abear verb: to put up with; to endure; to bear.
Verb
abear (third-person singular simple present abears, present participle abearing, simple past abore, past participle aborn or aborne)
- To put up with; to endure; to bear.
- Hunder-cook, indeed! which it's what I never abore yet, and never will abear.1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009
- And he seems sweet on Miss Hazel though she can’t abear him, though when I ask her about him she snaps my head off and tells me to mind my own business.1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 6, in Lud-in-the-Mist, London: Millennium, published 2000, page 68
- To bear; to carry.
- To behave; to comport oneself.
- So did the Faerie knight himselfe abeare, / And stouped oft his head from shame to shield […]1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.12
Noun
abear (plural abears)
- Bearing, behavior.
Forms of abear
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | abears |
| present participle | abearing |
| past | abore |
| past participle | aborn |
| past participle | aborne |
| Noun | |
| plural | abears |
Origin of abear
From Middle English aberen, from Old English āberan (“to bear, carry, carry away”), from ā- (“away, out”), a- + beran (“to bear”), from Proto-Germanic *uzberaną (“to bear off, bring forth, produce”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to a- + bear. Cognate with Old High German irberan, Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (usbairan).
Words formed from abear
Words that rhyme with abear
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- declare
- hair
- Sinclair
- where
- ayr
- care
- layer
- mayor
- parterre
- fare
- glare
- lair
- pear
- prayer
- snare
- compare
- dare
- rare
- share
- swear
- ware
- wear and tear
- Ayer
- blare
- flair
- forbear
- Kerr
- laissez faire
- mousquetaire
- pare
- prepare
- repair
- stare
- unfair
- yare
- -ware
- aflare
- despair
- glair
- heir
- impair
- Pierre
- reair
- scare
- tare
- trillionaire
- Voltaire
- aware
Questions about abear
- What does abear mean?
- Abear means to put up with; to endure; to bear.
- What part of speech is abear?
- Abear can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce abear?
- Abear is pronounced /əˈbɛə/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of abear?
- The past tense of abear is abore.
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