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abears

abears is the third-person singular simple present indicative of abear.

abears is the plural 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 abears

What is abears the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Abears is the third-person singular simple present indicative of abear.

Words near abears in the dictionary

  1. abear
  2. abearance
  3. abeared
  4. abearing
  5. abearings
  6. abears
  7. abeat
  8. Abebe
  9. Abebes
  10. ABEC
  11. abecarnil

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