bear (1) — OET

bear1

verb

1 Bill arrived, bearing a large picnic hamper:

carry, bring, transport, move, convey, take, fetch, haul, lug, shift;

deliver;

informal tote.

2 the letter bore the signature of a local councillor:

display, exhibit, show, present, set forth, be marked with, carry, have.

3 the track has horizontal concrete slabs, which bear the weight of the vehicle:

support, carry, hold up, prop up, keep up, bolster up;

brace, shore up, underpin, buttress, reinforce.

4 ratepayers will have to bear the cost of such a move:

sustain, carry, support, shoulder, uphold, absorb, take on.

5 the drugs had been planted by someone who bore a grudge against him:

harbour, foster, entertain, cherish, nurse, nurture, brood over, possess, have, hold (on to), cling to, maintain, retain.

6 such a solution does not bear close scrutiny:

withstand, stand up to, stand, put up with, take, cope with, handle, resist, sustain, absorb, accept.

7 I'm not sure how much longer I can bear the pain:

endure, tolerate, put up with, stand, suffer, abide, submit to, experience, undergo, go through, countenance, brook, brave, weather, support;

informal stick, stomach, swallow.

8 I can't bear being dependent on other people:

tolerate, stand, put up with, stomach, swallow, brook, undergo, accept, approve of, endorse, allow, admit, permit;

Scottish thole;

informal stick, hack, abide;

British, informal wear, be doing with;

archaic suffer.

9 at seventeen she bore his daughter:

give birth to, bring forth, deliver, be delivered of, have, mother, create, produce, spawn;

conceive;

breed, procreate, reproduce;

North American birth;

informal drop;

literary beget;

archaic engender, be brought to bed of.

10 the radio bore the news of a policeman shot in Belfast:

communicate, carry, spread, disclose, tell, disseminate, circulate, diffuse, pass on, make public, make known;

transmit, broadcast, publish.

11 a squash that bears fruit shaped like cucumbers:

produce, yield, give forth, give, provide, supply, generate, afford, furnish, bestow.

12 you drive to the end of the street, bear left, and go into the car park:

veer, curve, swerve, incline, turn, fork, diverge, deviate, bend;

go, move;

Sailing tack, sheer.

□ bear oneself

she bore herself like a queen as she slowly descended the stairs:

conduct oneself, carry oneself, acquit oneself, act, behave, perform;

rare comport oneself, deport oneself.

□ bear down on

at a canter they bore down on the mass of men ahead:

advance on, close in on, move in on, converge on, approach, come/move closer/close to, draw near/nearer to, press on towards;

attack, set upon, fall upon, assail, let fly at, tear into;

British, informal set about.

▷antonyms retreat from, move away from.

□ bear fruit

plans for power-sharing may be about to bear fruit:

yield results, get results, succeed, meet with success, be successful, be effective, be profitable, work, go as planned;

informal pay off, come off, pan out, do the trick, do the business.

▷antonyms come to nothing.

□ bear something in mind

it is important to bear in mind that different countries have different regimes:

take into account, be mindful, remember, consider, mind, mark, heed, take into consideration, not forget;

respect, pay/have regard to, make allowances for, be guided by.

▷antonyms forget, ignore.

□ bear on

there is a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves:

be relevant to, appertain to, pertain to, relate to, have a bearing on, have relevance to, apply to, be pertinent to, have reference to, concern, be concerned with, have to do with, be connected with.

▷antonyms be irrelevant to.

□ bear something out

he has conducted experiments that bear out these ideas:

confirm, corroborate, substantiate, endorse, vindicate, give credence to, support, ratify, warrant, uphold, justify, prove, authenticate, verify.

▷antonyms contradict, falsify.

□ bear up

she looks fantastic and is bearing up remarkably well:

cope, persevere, manage, endure;

muddle through/along, get through, get on, carry on, get along, deal with the situation;

grin and bear it, weather the storm;

informal make out, get by, hack it.

▷antonyms go to pieces.

□ bear with

bear with me a moment while I make a telephone call:

be patient with, show forbearance towards, make allowances for, tolerate, put up with, endure, suffer.

□ bear witness to (also bear testimony to)

the great cathedrals bore witness to a towering vision of transcendence:

testify to, be evidence/proof of, attest to, confirm, evidence, prove, vouch for;

demonstrate, show, establish, indicate, reveal, bespeak.

word links	bear
-ferous bearing or yielding something, as in Carboniferous, melliferous

bear (1) Oxford Dictionary of English