to bear
- verb
- /bɛr/
- In the spring, many animals give birth, and the mother rabbit will bear several young at once.
- bear fruit
- bear twins
The article, the headline is grandmother bears child for son.
- The article, the headline is grandmother bears child for son.
- Is it lacking in compassion to say that only women bear children or only women menstruate?
- And Oh my God, the feeling of when your obedience bears fruit, you know it's from God.
- And she had sex with them and then she came back and then she showed him the children that she she bore from him.
- And when you actually read the Hebrew, it does not say a virgin shall conceive and bear a son.
Examples
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After years of hope, she was finally able to bear her first child, bringing joy to her family.
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I think about the great grandmothers who had to bear children in the worst of possible circumstances.
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Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day.
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Their flocks have thick wool, their wives bear them children.
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Historically, women would bear children not just for their families, but also to contribute to their communities.
Synonyms
To give birth to a baby or young animal
To have a baby or young animal from your body
To make animals have babies, often by choosing their parents
To cause a baby or young animal to be born
To give birth to a group of baby animals at once
Antonyms
- Specialized
To make a person or animal unable to have children by a medical operation
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
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Etymology
Bear comes from the old German beran meaning 'to carry' or 'bring', so to 'bear' a child is to carry and then give birth to it.