to bear
- verb
- /bɛr/
- He had to bear the heavy burdens of responsibility at such a young age.
- bear the brunt
- bear the burden
- bear responsibility
Which of these two could I bear living with the regret of?
- Which of these two could I bear living with the regret of?
- May you think freely and bear patiently those who think differently.
- You should only do it if you can't bear to not do it.
- And I'm not willing to make them bear that cost.
- I do not think I could bear to lose one hour of it to.
- You will have to bear all the blame for such misfortunes.
- Why does your mother have to bear that bill?
- And then we start to as children because we can't bear the load of that trauma.
- But children, Ivan says children don't bear that.
- Only you know what you can bear, but the issue is seeing it clearly.
- What, what could I, what could I not bear?
- Yeah, I came to every town because I just couldn't bear it anymore.
- He says there is much that I would teach you, but you cannot bear it right now.
Examples
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My punishment is mine to bear and mine to bear alone.
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How can you bear to see him go?
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Nobody else on the plane wants to bear that responsibility.
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And it's it's getting to be too much to bear to not be myself.
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Only you know what you can bear, but the issue is seeing it clearly.
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Working married women could not bear the responsibility both at home and at work.
Academic text (2008) -
And I'm not willing to make them bear that cost.
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You should only do it if you can't bear to not do it.
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And I can't bear the thought of Christmas without you.
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You will have to bear all the blame for such misfortunes.
Synonyms
To resist harm and continue to exist despite difficulty
To tolerate an unpleasant situation without complaining
To accept something unpleasant that you cannot change
To deal with something difficult for a long time without giving up
Endure something unpleasant without complaining
To accept something unpleasant without complaining
Manage a difficult problem, situation or strong feeling
To not tolerate someone or something unpleasant
To be able to tolerate something you dislike
To accept an unpleasant situation without complaining
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To do something on purpose to make an angry or dangerous person react
- Formal
To behave calmly and with self-respect in difficult or formal situations
Phrasal Verbs
- Formal
Show that something is true, often by signs or by people saying they saw it
Compounds
- US
A large, powerful brown bear that lives in mountains and forests in western North America
- Specialized
A time when stock prices fall a lot and people expect them to keep falling
A large, powerful wild animal with brown fur that lives in forests in Asia and North America
- Australian
A slow tree animal from Australia with grey fur that eats eucalyptus leaves and carries its babies in a pouch
- Jargon
An offer to buy a company at a very high price that its directors feel they must accept
- Baby Talk
A made-up colorful bear character with a symbol on its belly showing a feeling
- Specialized
A medium-sized North American bear usually with black or dark brown fur and less aggressive than brown bears
- US
A plant that lives for many years with long leaves like grass and tall stalks of white flowers
- UK
A small reddish-brown animal like a raccoon that lives in the eastern Himalayas and eats bamboo
- Australian
A fake dangerous animal Australians joke about that falls from trees onto people to scare tourists
A large hairy South American mammal with a long tongue and strong claws for eating ants
A very large brown bear that lives on the coasts of Alaska and British Columbia
- Indian
A medium-sized black bear with a white V-shaped chest patch from central and eastern Asia
- US
An animal from tropical America that lives in trees and uses its long tail to hold branches while eating fruit
- Australian
A small Australian animal that lives in trees, carries babies in a pouch, and eats eucalyptus leaves
- US
A stocky wild animal from North America with thick fur that eats meat, like a wolverine
A hairy caterpillar with thick, stiff hairs that turns into a small moth
How Tolerant
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bear comes from the old German beran meaning 'to carry', so to 'bear' a cost or pain is to 'carry' a burden and accept it.