Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to abear
Participle: abeared
Gerund: abearing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | abear |
| you | abear |
| he;she;it | abears |
| we | abear |
| you | abear |
| they | abear |
Perfect
| I | have abeared |
| you | have abeared |
| he;she;it | has abeared |
| we | have abeared |
| you | have abeared |
| they | have abeared |
Past
| I | abeared |
| you | abeared |
| he;she;it | abeared |
| we | abeared |
| you | abeared |
| they | abeared |
Pluperfect
| I | had abeared |
| you | had abeared |
| he;she;it | had abeared |
| we | had abeared |
| you | had abeared |
| they | had abeared |
Future
| I | will abear |
| you | will abear |
| he;she;it | will abear |
| we | will abear |
| you | will abear |
| they | will abear |
Future Perfect
| I | will have abeared |
| you | will have abeared |
| he;she;it | will have abeared |
| we | will have abeared |
| you | will have abeared |
| they | will have abeared |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | abear |
| you | abear |
| he;she;it | abear |
| we | abear |
| you | abear |
| they | abear |
Perfect
| I | have abeared |
| you | have abeared |
| he;she;it | have abeared |
| we | have abeared |
| you | have abeared |
| they | have abeared |
Imperfect
| I | abeared |
| you | abeared |
| he;she;it | abeared |
| we | abeared |
| you | abeared |
| they | abeared |
Pluperfect
| I | had abeared |
| you | had abeared |
| he;she;it | had abeared |
| we | had abeared |
| you | had abeared |
| they | had abeared |
Conditional
Present
| I | would abear |
| you | would abear |
| he;she;it | would abear |
| we | would abear |
| you | would abear |
| they | would abear |
Perfect
| I | would have abeared |
| you | would have abeared |
| he;she;it | would have abeared |
| we | would have abeared |
| you | would have abeared |
| they | would have abeared |
Imperative
| you | abear |
| we | Let's abear |
| you | abear |
Verbs conjugated like 'abear'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'abear'
aberr,
afear,
anear,
arear,
bear,
abend,
abet,
abhor,
abray,
affear,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to allow something unpleasant to exist or occur
- abide, aby, accept, allow, bear, bide, brook, dree, endure, forbear, go along with, live with, pass, pocket, pouch, put up with, stand, stick, stomach, suffer, swallow, take sitting down, tolerate, thole, undergang, undergo
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
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). See: Proto-Germanic '
*uzberaną', Old High German 'irberan'.
Sample Sentences
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Hunder-cook, indeed! which it's what I never abore yet, and never will abear. [1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:]
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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. [1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 6, in Lud-in-the-Mist, London: Millennium, published 2000, page 68:]
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So did the Faerie knight himselfe abeare, / And stouped oft his head from shame to shield […] [1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.12:]