forbear

forbear has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.
• v. i.. To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
• v. i.. To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
• v. i.. To control one's self when provoked.
• v. t.. To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.
• v. t.. To treat with consideration or indulgence.
• v. t.. To cease from bearing.
• n.. a person from whom you are descended
• v.. resist doing something; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping"
• v.. refrain from doing; "she forbore a snicker"