bear up
English
Pronunciation
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Verb
bear up (third-person singular simple present bears up, present participle bearing up, simple past bore up, past participle borne up)
- (nautical) To sail close to the wind.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To endure hardship cheerfully.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To support; to keep from falling or sinking.
- 1712 September 10 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, August 30, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 471; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume Expression error: Unexpected < operator., New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
- The spelling has been modernized.
- [Religious hope] does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings.
Translations
to sail close to the wind
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