Other forms of bear are bears, bored, worn. However, the past and the -ed participle are rarely used. She must suffer, her conscience must worry her, in a way her life must be as difficult to bear as hers. She prayed for the strength to persevere and resigned herself to God`s will. If you endure a difficult situation, you accept it and are able to cope with it. The city still bears the French name of Aachen. He said, “I`m heartbreaking because of this story and I can`t bear to end it.” If you don`t love someone at all, you`re not saying you can`t “not love them.” You say you can`t stand them or you can`t stand them. In addition, his arms did not bear the slightest trace of injury. Once again, he accused the West of being unfair to Russia and brought back his favorite metaphor, the Russian bear. To endure is to carry or endure, whether through physical or mental violence. If you can bear to keep reading, you will discover all the different ways to use the word bear. If you can`t stand doing something, you can`t do it because it makes you so unhappy.

A bear is a large, vigorous wild animal with thick fur and sharp claws. The floors could not support the weight of the piano. The bear is often used in negative sentences. If you can`t stand something or someone, you don`t like them very much. “If the Port of Charleston is to be improved, Charleston`s trade should bear the burden,” he said. Obviously, you know the big, hairy animal wandering in the mountains, but you may never have heard of a bear on Wall Street – a pessimistic investor in the market. In its verbal form, bear is rooted in old English beran, which means “to produce, support, endure” and more. Thus, you can keep (or carry) a grudge.

You can give birth (or give birth) to children. Or you can bear (or stand) to listen to your great-aunt tell the same story for the umpteenth time if you have a kind soul. Endure, suffer, endure, stay, tolerate, be mean, endure something tempting or painful. The bear usually involves the power to hold without flinching or breaking. Forced to endure a tragic loss often indicates acceptance or passivity rather than courage or patience to endure. To suffer many insults means to go through trials and difficulties with firmness or determination. Years of rejection suggest acceptance without resistance or protest. Tolerance suggests successfully overcoming or controlling an impulse to resist, avoid, or annoy something hurtful or tasteless. The refusal to tolerate such treatment further emphasizes the ability to endure without serenity or contractions. Unable to bear the teasing There is considerable confusion between the verbs bear and nude. It may be helpful to remember that the naked verb has only one meaning: “to discover,” as in “expose your shoulders” and “a dog exposing its teeth.” All other uses of the verb are for bear: “to bear children”, “the right to bear arms”, “to carry under stress/weight”, “cannot bear thought”, “to carry the south”, “it is worth repeating”.

It`s the same thing my dad used to tell me, “Play fair, Ted – and if you lose, why, you have to smile and endure that. Putin suggested that all the West wanted was to turn the Russian bear into a “taxidermy.” Perhaps our dear bear should sit quietly, not hunt piglets and eat only berries and honey. Near the border were the rings, the places where the staves could carry the table. When someone endures pain or a difficult situation, they accept it in a courageous way. There is occasional confusion between bear and nude in adjective uses (as in “he rubbed his bear arms”), but bear is actually a noun and is only used as an adjective in the financial bear market expression. All other uses refer to the condition of being discovered or naked and should therefore be naked: “naked necessities”, “bare essentials”, “bare arms”, “bare bones”, “bare ankle” and so on. Many buildings in the city still bear the scars of the bombings. a blue banner that read “Civil Rights March” Being fooled in front of a room full of people was more than he could bear. Sue can`t stand being separated from her young daughter. They do not use the term “suffering” to say that someone tolerates an unpleasant person. You say they reconcile with the person.

It can be said that someone is suffering from pain or an unpleasant experience. He had caused unspeakable suffering, but they bore him no bitterness. Carry the Middle English Beren, produce from the Old English Beran; Similar to Old High German Beran to wear, Latin ferre, Greek pherein Find the answers with Practical English Usage online, your indispensable guide to problems in English. She endured all her suffering with incredible patience. Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! Nude is usually an adjective. Something that is bald has no cover. Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. If you tolerate or accept something, you accept it even if you don`t like or approve of it. Tolerating is more formal than surrendering. before the 12th century, in the sense defined in sense 1.