Dictionary Entry
forbear
forbear is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.
- 2intransitive verb
To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
- 3intransitive verb
To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
- 4intransitive verb
To control one's self when provoked.
- 5transitive verb
To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.
- 6transitive verb
To treat with consideration or indulgence.
- 7transitive verb
To cease from bearing.
- 8noun
a person from whom you are descended
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- 9verb
resist doing something
"He refrained from hitting him back"
"she could not forbear weeping"
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- 10verb
refrain from doing
"she forbore a snicker"
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