Definition of bears

"bears" in the noun sense

1. bear

massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws

2. bear

an investor with a pessimistic market outlook an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price

"bears" in the verb sense

1. bear

have

"bear a resemblance"

"bear a signature"

2. give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have

cause to be born

"My wife had twins yesterday!"

3. digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up

put up with something or somebody unpleasant

"I cannot bear his constant criticism"

"The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"

"he learned to tolerate the heat"

"She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

4. bear

move while holding up or supporting

"Bear gifts"

"bear a heavy load"

"bear news"

"bearing orders"

5. bear, turn out

bring forth

"The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"

"The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers"

6. bear, take over, accept, assume

take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person

"I'll accept the charges"

"She agreed to bear the responsibility"

7. hold, bear, carry, contain

contain or hold have within

"The jar carries wine"

"The canteen holds fresh water"

"This can contains water"

8. yield, pay, bear

bring in

"interest-bearing accounts"

"How much does this savings certificate pay annually?"

9. wear, bear

have on one's person

"He wore a red ribbon"

"bear a scar"

10. behave, acquit, bear, deport, conduct, comport, carry

behave in a certain manner

"She carried herself well"

"he bore himself with dignity"

"They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"

11. bear, hold

have rightfully of rights, titles, and offices

"She bears the title of Duchess"

"He held the governorship for almost a decade"

12. hold, carry, bear

support or hold in a certain manner

"She holds her head high"

"He carried himself upright"

13. have a bun in the oven, bear, carry, gestate, expect

be pregnant with

"She is bearing his child"

"The are expecting another child in January"

"I am carrying his child"

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Quotations for bears

Every one bears his cross. [ French ]

One doth harm,
And another bears the blame. [ Proverb ]

Are you there with your bears? [ Proverb ]

Honest labour bears a lovely face. [ T. Dekker ]

He the cross who longest bears
Finds his sorrow's bounds are set. [ Winkworth ]

Let dogs delight to bark and bite.
For God hath made them so;
Let bears and lions growl and fight.
For 'tis their nature to. [ Isaac Watts ]

Vain-glory blossoms, but never bears. [ Proverb ]

The boughs that bears most hang lowest. [ Proverb ]

He bears misery best that hides it most. [ Proverb ]

She bears a duke's revenues on her back. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that wrongs his friend
Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about
A silent court of justice in his breast,
Himself the judge and jury, and himself
The prisoner at the bar, ever condemned. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

He that bears himself like a gentleman, is
Worth to have been born a gentleman. [ Chapman ]

That carries anger as the flint bears fire;
Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,
And straight is cold again. [ Jul. Caes ]

None but an author knows an author's cares,
Or fancy's fondness for the child she bears. [ Cowper ]

The ass bears the load, but not the overload. [ Cervantes ]

O, what a world is this, when what is comely.
Envenoms him that bears it! [ William Shakespeare ]

He bears poverty very ill who is ashamed of it. [ Proverb ]

Man is a carnivorous production,
And must have meals, at least one meal a day;
He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction.
But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey.
Although his anatomical construction
Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,
Your laboring people think beyond all question,
Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion. [ Byron ]

Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face
Bears a command in it; though thy tackle's torn,
Thou showest a noble vessel. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell. [ Proverb ]

That life is long which answers life's great end;
The tree that bears no fruit deserves no name;
The man of wisdom is the man of years. [ Edward Young ]

What man would be wise, let him drink of the river
That bears on his bosom the record of time;
A message to him every wave can deliver
To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb. [ John Boyle O'Reilly ]

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [ Goethe ]

This picture bears no small resemblance to yourself. [ Horace ]

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove;
No! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me proved;
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. [ William Shakespeare ]

More to do with one jackanapes than with all the bears. [ Proverb ]

Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. [ W. Irving ]

That is true liberty which bears a pure and firm breast. [ Ennius ]

And never shall the sons of Columbia be slaves.
While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. [ Robert Treat Paine ]

Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two bear it lightly. [ W. Hauff ]

He that bears a torch shadows himself to give light to others. [ Proverb ]

Age bears away with it all things, even the powers of the mind. [ Virgil ]

Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it. [ Mme. de Sevigne ]

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent. [ Rivarol ]

Every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity. [ William Shakespeare ]

He on whom Heaven bestows a sceptre knows not the weight of it till he bears it. [ Corneille ]

Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Extremes of fortune are true wisdom's test, and he's of men most wise who bears them best. [ Cumberland ]

Every evil deed already bears its own avenging angel, the dread of evil, in the heart of it. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Contention, like a horse full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, and bears down all before him. [ William Shakespeare ]

Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness. [ Alice Cary ]

A vine bears three grapes - the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance. [ Anacharsis ]

Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility. [ G. H. Lewes ]

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we bad been endowed with. [ Horace ]

The intellect of woman bears the same relationship to that of man as her physical organization; it is inferior in power and different in kind. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

Praise is the best auxiliary to prayer; and he who most bears in mind what has been done for him by God will be most emboldened to supplicate fresh gifts from above. [ Henry Melvill ]

The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God, is most unfaltering. [ William Ellery Channing ]

From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth. [ Willmott ]

His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]

bears in Scrabble®

The word bears is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters bears:

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bears in Words With Friends™

The word bears is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters bears:

BASER
(48)
BEARS
(48)
BARES
(48)
 

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Words containing the sequence bears

Words that start with bears (3 words)

Words with bears in them (1 word)

Words that end with bears (6 words)

Word Growth involving bears

Shorter words in bears

be bear

ar ear bear

ar ars ears

ar ear ears

Longer words containing bears

abears

bearskin bearskins

bugbears

forbears

forebears

overbears