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upbear

upbear verb: to hold up; raise aloft; hold or sustain high.

Verb

upbear (third-person singular simple present upbears, present participle upbearing, simple past upbore, past participle upborne or (archaic, poetic) upbore)

  1. (dated, transitive) To hold up; raise aloft; hold or sustain high
    • One short sigh of breath, upborne / Even to the seat of God.1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
    • A monstrous wave up-bore the chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore.1725–1726, Homer, “Book 5”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC

upbear meaning in Tamil

upbear in Tamil

தூக்கிப் பிடி

Forms of upbear

third-person singular presentupbears
present participleupbearing
pastupbore
past participleupborne
past participle poetic (archaic)upbore

Origin of upbear

From Middle English upberen, equivalent to up- + bear.

Words formed from upbear

Questions about upbear

What does upbear mean?
Upbear means to hold up; raise aloft; hold or sustain high.
What is upbear in Tamil?
Upbear in Tamil is தூக்கிப் பிடி. See Upbear meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is upbear?
Upbear is a verb.
What is the past tense of upbear?
The past tense of upbear is upbore.

Words near upbear in the dictionary

  1. upbar
  2. upbarred
  3. upbarring
  4. upbars
  5. upbay
  6. upbear
  7. upbearer
  8. upbearers
  9. upbearing
  10. upbears
  11. upbeat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upbear (page history and authors); upbear (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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