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TO BEAR AGAINST

Definition: TO BEAR AGAINST

TO BEAR AGAINST

1. To approach for attack or seizure; as, a lion bears against his prey. [Obs.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO BEAR AGAINST

English words defined with "TO BEAR AGAINST": Burden of proofTo bear off, To bear upon, To ride down. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO BEAR AGAINST": air interdiction, axial piston pump, axial type of multiple-piston pumpgrinding-machine operatorNergal-sharezerPLATEN GRINDERReal Programmers Don't Use PascalTerms of Salevibrating screen, VowWitness. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO BEAR AGAINST

SubjectTopicQuote

Discrimination

Swaziland

The law reportedly has been used on occasion to bring moral suasion to bear against employers. (references)

Economic History

Libya

When evidence of Libyan complicity was discovered in the Berlin discotheque terrorist bombing that killed an American serviceman, the United States responded by launching an aerial bombing attack against targets near Tripoli and Benghazi in April 1986. Since then, the United States has maintained its trade and travel embargoes and has sought to bring diplomatic and economic pressure to bear against Libya. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Anagrams: TO BEAR AGAINST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-e-g-i-n-o-r-s-t-t"

-2 letters: trabeations.

-3 letters: abnegators, aragonites, trabeation.

-4 letters: abattoirs, abnegator, abrogates, abstainer, aerations, agitators, arabinose, aragonite, attainers, baritones, baronages, battering, besotting, betatrons, breasting, gestation, natatoria, obstinate, obtainers, obtesting, orangiest, reattains, reobtains, restating, retasting, sanatoria, stationer, taborines, tearstain, tetragons.

-5 letters: abattoir, abetting, abettors, aborting, abrasion, abrogate, aerating, aeration, aerostat, agitates, agitator, airboats, anergias, angarias, angaries, angriest, antbears.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO BEAR AGAINST


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      42 45 41 52      41 47 41 49 4E 53 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000010 01000101 01000001 01010010 00100000 01000001 01000111 01000001 01001001 01001110 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#66 &#69 &#65 &#82 &#32 &#65 &#71 &#65 &#73 &#78 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0042 0045 0041 0052      0041 0047 0041 0049 004E 0053 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5449236393552235413543485354

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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