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borne up

borne up is the past participle 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 borne up

What is borne up the past participle of?
Borne up is the past participle of bear up.

Words near borne up in the dictionary

  1. borne on
  2. borne oneself
  3. borne out
  4. borne the brunt
  5. borne the scars
  6. borne up
  7. borne upon
  8. borne with
  9. borne witness
  10. Bornean
  11. Bornean clouded leopard

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