Associations to the word «Forbear»
Noun
- Mention
- Kindness
- Countenance
- Disposition
- Folly
- Comment
- Sake
- Misfortune
- Nor
- Remark
- Misery
- Manner
- Him
- Patience
- Smile
- Pity
- Occasion
- Slavery
- Consideration
- Contempt
- Happiness
- Wise
- Opinion
- Seeing
- Regard
- Tear
- Discourse
- Circumstance
- Sentiment
- Reader
- Perhaps
- Pleasure
- Pardon
- But
- Majesty
- Heaven
- Render
- Consequence
- Allah
- Fault
- Ado
- Lady
- Ear
- Necessity
- Perceiving
- Doing
- Speech
- Joy
- Duty
- Smiling
- Gentle
- Wherefore
- Progenitor
Adjective
Verb
Wiktionary
FORBEAR, verb. (transitive) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up.
FORBEAR, verb. (intransitive) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
FORBEAR, verb. (intransitive) To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
FORBEAR, verb. (intransitive) To control oneself when provoked.
FORBEAR, noun. Alternative spelling of forebear
Dictionary definition
FORBEAR, noun. A person from whom you are descended.
FORBEAR, verb. Refrain from doing; "she forbore a snicker".
FORBEAR, verb. Resist doing something; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.