bear up

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bear up

verb bears up · bearing up · bore up · borne up

To sail close to the wind.
idiomatic, intransitive To endure hardship cheerfully or without complaining.
idiomatic, transitive To support; to keep from falling or sinking. Afterwards the Lord renued this Covenant with Noah, Gen. 6.10. and did further reveale it in another Type, namely, the ſaving of Noah and his family in the Arke, which was borne up by the flood of Waters; […]

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@misc{bear_up_2026,
  title = {bear up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bear%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}