| 单词 | forebear |
| 释义 | forebear (once / 8124 pages) n Your father, grandmother, and great grandfather are all your forebears. A forebear is an ancestor, or someone you are descended from. You might have thought that forebear means to stop yourself from doing something. The word you are thinking of is forbear. Confused? The "e" makes all of the difference here. Whereas the first is a noun, the second is a verb. Just remember that if you see fore like in before, it's the people who came before you. WORD FAMILYforebear: forebears+/bear: bearable, bearer, bearing, bearish, bears, borne, forebear, overbear/bearable: bearably, unbearable/bearer: bearers/bearing: bearings, nonbearing/bearish: bearishly/overbear: overbearing, overbears, overbore, overborne/overbearing: overbearingly, overbearingness/unbearable: unbearably USAGE EXAMPLESCompared with forebears such as these, what is striking about Trump is how little he engages, at least explicitly, with questions of culture and identity. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) And then there were the sly nods to his forebears. Time(Dec 26, 2016) Here, too, it shares something in common with its forebears. The New Yorker(Dec 04, 2016) n a person from whom you are descended Syn|Hypo|Hyper forbear 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) |
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