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NOUN | 1 | bear | Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws |
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2 | bear | An investor with a pessimistic market outlook | |
VERB | 1 | bear | Have |
2 | bear, give birth, deliver, birth, have | Give birth (to a newborn) | |
3 | bear, digest, endure, stick out, stomach, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up | Put up with something or somebody unpleasant | |
4 | bear | Move while holding up or supporting | |
5 | bear, turn out | Bring forth, "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year" | |
6 | bear, take over, accept, assume | Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | |
7 | bear, hold, carry, contain | Contain or hold | |
8 | bear, yield, pay | Bring in | |
9 | bear, wear | Have on one's person | |
10 | bear, behave, acquit, deport, conduct, comport, carry | Behave in a certain manner | |
11 | bear, hold | Have rightfully | |
12 | bear, hold, carry | Support or hold in a certain manner | |
13 | bear, have a bun in the oven, carry, gestate, expect | Be pregnant with |
Sounds | beh'r |
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Rhymes | affair, air, airfare, and 109 more rhymes in ehr at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws. |
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Member of | Ursidae, family Ursidae |
Narrower | brown bear, bruin, Ursus arctos; bruin; American black bear, black bear, Ursus americanus, Euarctos americanus; Asiatic black bear, black bear, Ursus thibetanus, Selenarctos thibetanus; ice bear, polar bear, Ursus Maritimus, Thalarctos maritimus; sloth bear, Melursus ursinus, Ursus ursinus |
Broader | carnivore |
Adjectives | ursine |
Meaning | An investor with a pessimistic market outlook. An investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price. |
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Broader | investor |
Contrary | bull |
Meaning | Have. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "bear a resemblance"; "bear a signature" |
Narrower | carry |
Broader | have, feature |
Meaning | Give birth (to a newborn). |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Synonyms | give birth, deliver, birth, have |
Entails | conceive |
Entailed by | lie in; labor, labour |
Narrower | twin; drop; foal; kitten; lamb; litter; have a bun in the oven, bear, carry, gestate, expect |
Broader | produce, bring forth |
Similar to | have a bun in the oven, bear, carry, gestate, expect |
Meaning | Put up with something or somebody unpleasant. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Model | Sam cannot bear Sue |
Examples | "I cannot bear his constant criticism" |
Synonyms | digest, endure, stick out, stomach, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up |
Narrower | accept, live with, swallow; stand for, hold still for; bear up; take lying down; take a joke; take, undergo, submit; sit out; pay |
Broader | permit, allow, let, countenance |
Similar to | suffer |
Meaning | Move while holding up or supporting. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Examples | "Bear gifts"; "bear a heavy load"; "bear news"; "bearing orders" |
Entails | move; move, displace |
Narrower | frogmarch; piggyback |
Broader | transport, carry |
Nouns | bearer; bearer; bearer |
Meaning | Bring forth, "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year". |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Synonyms | turn out |
Narrower | spin off; seed; crop; overbear; fruit |
Broader | make, create |
See also | bear out |
Meaning | Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "She agreed to bear the responsibility" |
Synonyms | take over, accept, assume |
Narrower | face the music, carry-the can |
Broader | take |
Meaning | Contain or hold. Have within. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Synonyms | hold, carry, contain |
Narrower | retain; surround, environ, encircle, circle, round, ring; enclose, hold in, confine |
Broader | include |
Similar to | contain, take, hold |
Meaning | Bring in. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Examples | "interest-bearing accounts" |
Synonyms | yield, pay |
Category | investment, investment funds |
Narrower | net, clear; pay off |
Broader | gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in |
Meaning | Have on one's person. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "bear a scar" |
Synonyms | wear |
Broader | have, feature |
Meaning | Behave in a certain manner. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Synonyms | behave, acquit, deport, conduct, comport, carry |
Narrower | fluster; assert, put forward; deal; walk around; pose, posture |
Broader | hold, carry, bear; act, move |
Similar to | hold, carry, bear |
Nouns | bearing |
Meaning | Have rightfully. Of rights, titles, and offices. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "She bears the title of Duchess" |
Synonyms | hold |
Broader | have, have got, hold |
Nouns | bearer |
Meaning | Support or hold in a certain manner. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | hold, carry |
Narrower | stoop; piggyback; poise, balance; behave, acquit, bear, deport, conduct, comport, carry |
Similar to | behave, acquit, bear, deport, conduct, comport, carry |
Nouns | bearing |
Meaning | Be pregnant with. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "She is bearing his child" |
Synonyms | have a bun in the oven, carry, gestate, expect |
Entails | conceive |
Entailed by | carry to term |
Broader | give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have |
Similar to | give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have; expect |