Definitions for forbear

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forbear for·bear

Spelling: [fawr-bair]

IPA: /fɔrˈbɛər/

Forbear is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in forbear (abeforr).

Definitions for forbear

noun

1. forebear.

verb (used with object)

1. to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
2. to keep back; withhold.
3. Obsolete. to endure.

verb (used without object)

1. to refrain; hold back.
2. to be patient or self-controlled when subject to annoyance or provocation.

Origin of forbear

before 900; Middle English forberen, Old English forberan. See for-, bear¹

Examples for forbear

Constable Jonathan could not forbear a laugh at the name, and at the idea it suggested.

I cannot forbear to transcribe what a friend has written to me.

Pale and exhausted, her listener at length entreated her to forbear.

But I forbear to dwell on that rapture, much as it influenced me.

For who can forbear to laugh at the bare idea of an Irish bull?

Let men agree to differ, and, when they do differ, bear and forbear.

But there was that in her late employer's manner which caused her to forbear.

Dearest Madam, forbear for the present: I am but in my noviciate.

If you love sack, forbear; for this course will never bring you a drop.

She could not forbear asking what it was that touched him so much.