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abore

abore is the simple past 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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Words that rhyme with abore

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Questions about abore

What is abore the simple past of?
Abore is the simple past of abear.

Words near abore in the dictionary

  1. abordage
  2. abordages
  3. aborded
  4. abording
  5. abords
  6. abore
  7. aboreal
  8. aborgoin
  9. aborgoins
  10. aboricultural
  11. aboriculturist

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