| 单词 | forbear |
| 释义 | forbear (once / 507 pages) nv A forbear is an ancestor or any person you are descended from, like your grandfather or your great, great, great, great grandfather. The verb bear means to bring forth, as in to bear children. As a noun, forbear refers to a person that came before you. Your forbear can be someone you’ve known, but it can also refer to someone who came generations before you. As a verb, to forbear means to resist doing something or resist bringing it forth. You might forbear having children if you had thought your forbearers were cursed in some way. WORD FAMILYforbear: forbearance, forbearing, forbears, forbore, forborne+/forbearance: forbearances/forbearing: forbearingly, unforbearing USAGE EXAMPLESStone and Gosling are charming musical performers, but way less polished and ethereal than their cinematic forbears. Washington Times(Dec 07, 2016) Thus if the Democrats wish to preserve the filibuster, they will forbear from employing it. Wall Street Journal(Nov 14, 2016) She is a consummate leader: wry, forbearing, mature. The Guardian(Nov 12, 2016) 1n a person from whom you are descended Syn|Hypo|Hyper forebear grandparent a parent of your father or mother great grandparenta parent of your grandparent gramps, grandad, granddad, granddaddy, grandfather, grandpathe father of your father or mother gran, grandma, grandmother, grannie, granny, nan, nannathe mother of your father or mother great grandmothera mother of your grandparent great grandfathera father of your grandparent ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) 2v refrain from doing she forbore a snicker Syn|Hyper hold back refrain resist doing something 3v resist doing something she could not forbear weeping Syn|Ant|Hypo refrain act, move perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) leave, leave alone, leave behind leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking let it gonot act abstainrefrain from voting save, sparerefrain from harming hold backrefrain from doing help, help oneselfabstain from doing; always used with a negative stand bynot act or do anything sit outnot participate in (an activity, such as a dance or a sports event) letleave unchanged favor, favourtreat gently or carefully |
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