Definition of borne

"borne" 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 borne

Other men's pains are easily borne. [ Cervantes ]

Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I could lie down like a tired child,
And weep away the life of care
Which I have borne, and yet must bear. [ Shelley ]

God sends nothing but what can be borne. [ Italian Proverb ]

Poverty is shamefully borne by a sluggard. [ Proverb ]

And I have loved thee. Ocean! and my joy
Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be
Borne, like thy bubbles, onward; from a boy
I wanton'd with thy breakers. [ Byron ]

Scorn'd, to be scorn'd by one that I scorn,
Is that a matter to make me fret?
That a calamity hard to be borne? [ Alfred Tennyson ]

O holy Night! from thee I learn to bear
What man has borne before!
Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care,
And they complain no more. [ Longfellow ]

I am the very slave of circumstance
And impulse - borne away with every breath. [ Byron ]

Existence may be borne, and the deep root
Of life and sufferance make its firm abode
In bare and desolate bosoms: mute
The camel labors with the heaviest load.
And the wolf dies in silence: Not bestowed
In vain should such examples be; if they.
Things of ignoble or of savage mood,
Endure and shrink not, we of nobler clay
May temper it to bear - it is but for a day. [ Byron ]

Oppression is more easily borne than insult. [ Junius ]

Vexations, duly borne,
Are but as trials, which heaven's love to man
Sends for his good. [ William Shakespeare ]

The burden which is well borne becomes light. [ Ovid ]

Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne,
They rise, they break, and to that sea return. [ Pope ]

Behold the threaden sails.
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge. [ William Shakespeare ]

The burden becomes light which cheerfully borne. [ Ovid ]

Borne on the swift, tho' silent wings of time,
Old age comes on apace, to ravage all the clime. [ Beattie ]

Adversity is easier borne, than prosperity forgot. [ Proverb ]

What cannot be altered, must be borne, not blamed. [ Proverb ]

Contempt is usually worse borne than real injuries. [ Proverb ]

Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness. [ Whittier ]

Behold, we live through all things, - famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery.
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body, - but we cannot die.
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn, -
Lo, all things can be borne! [ Elizabeth Akers Allen ]

Time on his head has snowed, yet still it is borne aloft. [ Young ]

Bear and endure; you have borne much heavier misfortunes than these. [ Ovid ]

It is not affliction itself, but affliction rightly borne, that does us good. [ Aughey ]

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. [ Charles Lamb ]

The fragrance of the flower is never borne against the breeze; but the fragrance of human virtues diffuses itself everywhere. [ Ramayana ]

Imagine for a moment Napoleon I. to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith! [ Artemus Ward ]

You will find rest unto your souls when first you take on you the yoke of Christ, but joy only when you have borne it as long as He wills. [ John Ruskin ]

'Tis only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a Supreme Being that our calamities can be borne in that manner which becomes a man. [ Mackenzie ]

Psychical pain is more easily borne than physical: and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former. [ Heinrich Heine ]

Whatever you suffer deservedly should be borne with resignation; the penalty that comes upon us undeservedly comes as a matter of just complaint. [ Ovid ]

borne in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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borne in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Words within the letters of borne

2 letter words in borne (6 words)

3 letter words in borne (9 words)

4 letter words in borne (4 words)

5 letter words in borne (1 word)

Words containing the sequence borne

Words that start with borne (2 words)

Words with borne in them (5 words)

Word Growth involving borne

Shorter words in borne

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Longer words containing borne

aborne fleaborne

aborne seaborne

airborne

bornesitol

foodborne nonfoodborne

norbornene norbornenes

overborne

soilborne

stubborner

stubbornest

tickborne

waterborne