bear out

Verb

bear out (third-person singular simple present bears out, present participle bearing out, simple past bore out, past participle borne out)

1. (transitive) To corroborate, prove, or confirm; to demonstrate; to provide evidence for.
   • bear someone out on something
   • It was a promising idea, but the evidence did not bear out their theory.
2. To maintain and support to the end; to defend to the last.
   • 'Tis Company only that can bear a Man out in an ill Thing1694, Robert South, “Sermon V, VI., Rom I. 32”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume II, London: […] J[ohn] H[eptinstall] for Thomas Bennet […], →OCLC, page 249
   • If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark ; weave round them tragic graces ; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts ; if I shall touch that...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XXVI, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 128
3. (intransitive) To move quickly and sharply in an outward direction during a race; to veer out.
   • That horse always bears out on the turns.