harboring

Verb

harbor (third-person singular simple present harbors, present participle harboring, simple past and past participle harbored)

1. (US, transitive) To provide a harbor or safe place for.
   • The docks, which once harbored tall ships, now harbor only petty thieves.
2. (US, intransitive) To take refuge or shelter in a protected expanse of water.
   • The fleet harbored in the south.
3. (US, transitive) To drive (a hunted stag) to covert.
   • This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed...1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion
4. (US, transitive) To hold or persistently entertain in one's thoughts or mind.
   • She harbors a conviction that her husband has a secret, criminal past.

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