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abeared

abeared is the simple past and past participle of abear.

Meaning of abear

Verb

abear (third-person singular simple present abears, present participle abearing, simple past abore, past participle aborn or aborne)

  1. (archaic, dialectal, transitive) 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
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To bear; to carry.
  3. (obsolete, reflexive, transitive) 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

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Questions about abeared

What is abeared the simple past and past participle of?
Abeared is the simple past and past participle of abear.

Words near abeared in the dictionary

  1. Abe Lincolns
  2. Abe's salamander
  3. abeam
  4. abear
  5. abearance
  6. abeared
  7. abearing
  8. abearings
  9. abears
  10. abeat
  11. Abebe

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