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underbore

underbore is the simple past of underbear.

Meaning of underbear

Verb

underbear (third-person singular simple present underbears, present participle underbearing, simple past underbore or (obsolete) underbare, past participle underborne)

  1. To support, endure.
  2. (transitive) To line, guard or face a material, especially cloth.
    • cloth of gold underborne with blue tinsel1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Questions about underbore

What is underbore the simple past of?
Underbore is the simple past of underbear.

Words near underbore in the dictionary

  1. Underbool
  2. underboost
  3. underboosted
  4. underboosting
  5. underboosts
  6. underbore
  7. underborne
  8. underboss
  9. underbosses
  10. underbottom
  11. underbottoms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underbore (page history and authors); underbear (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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