abear
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of abear
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(archaic, dialectal, transitive)To put up with; to endure; to bear.
“Hunder-cook, indeed! which it's what I never abore yet, and never will abear.”
“And he seems sweet on Miss Hazel though she can’t abear him, though when I ask her about him she snaps my head off and tells me to mind my own business.”
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verb
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(archaic, dialectal, transitive)To put up with; to endure; to bear.
“Hunder-cook, indeed! which it's what I never abore yet, and never will abear.”
“And he seems sweet on Miss Hazel though she can’t abear him, though when I ask her about him she snaps my head off and tells me to mind my own business.”
- (obsolete, transitive)To bear; to carry.
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(obsolete, reflexive, transitive)To behave; to comport oneself.
“So did the Faerie knight himselfe abeare, / And stouped oft his head from shame to shield […]”
noun
- (obsolete)Bearing, behavior.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English aberen, from Old English āberan (“to bear, carry, carry away”), from ā- (“away, out”), a- + beran (“to bear”), from Proto-Germanic *uzberaną (“to bear off, bring forth, produce”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to a- + bear. Cognate with Old High German irberan, Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (usbairan).
Anagrams of abear
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