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bearing up

bearing up is the present participle and gerund of bear up.

Meaning of bear up

Verb

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

  1. To sail close to the wind.
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To endure hardship cheerfully or without complaining.
  3. (idiomatic, transitive) To support; to keep from falling or sinking.
    • Afterwards the Lord renued this Covenant with Noah, Gen. 6.10. and did further reveale it in another Type, namely, the ſaving of Noah and his family in the Arke, which was borne up by the flood of Waters; […]1640, [George Walker], chapter VI, in The Manifold Wisedome of God: In the divers diſpenſation of Grace by Ieſus Christ. […], London: Printed by R. H[odgkinson] for Iohn Bartlet, page 61

Questions about bearing up

What is bearing up the present participle and gerund of?
Bearing up is the present participle and gerund of bear up.

Words near bearing up in the dictionary

  1. bearing reins
  2. bearing sword
  3. bearing swords
  4. bearing the brunt
  5. bearing the scars
  6. bearing up
  7. bearing upon
  8. bearing with
  9. bearing witness
  10. bearingless
  11. bearinglike

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