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bore up

bore up is the simple past 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 bore up

What is bore up the simple past of?
Bore up is the simple past of bear up.

Words near bore up in the dictionary

  1. bore sighted
  2. bore sighting
  3. bore sights
  4. bore the brunt
  5. bore the scars
  6. bore up
  7. bore upon
  8. bore water
  9. bore with
  10. bore witness
  11. bore-draw

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