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Definition: UPBEAR |
UPBEARTransitive verb1. To bear up; to raise aloft; to support in an elevated situation; to sustain. |
Date "UPBEAR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1821. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Elevation | Verb: heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up, perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear, upcast, uphoist, upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal. |
Support | Support, bear, carry, hold, sustain, shoulder; hold up, back up, bolster up, shore up; uphold, upbear; prop; under prop, under pin, under set; riprap; bandage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "UPBEAR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | përkrah (advance, back, bolster, buttress, champion, encourage, espouse, Favor, favour, hug, patronize, promote, prop up, protect, root for, side with, stand up for, stick up for, support, take smb.'s part, uphold). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | поддържам (adhere, atlas, back, bear, buoy, carry, contend, expound, favour, feed, fuel, help on, hold, hold up, keep, keep up, maintain, nourish, play along, ply, promote, prop up, pull for, retain, run, service, side with, stand for, stand in with, support, sustain, take, uphold, vindicate, vouch), издигам (advance, build, edify, elevate, erect, exalt, heave, heft, heighten, hike, levitate, lift, make, put up, pyramid, raise, rear, rose, run up, set up, swing up, throw up, uplift, upraise). (various references) | |
Hungarian | támogat (abet, advocate, aid, assist, back, back up, bear up, befriend, bolster, champion, espouse, Favor, favour, Foster, further, help, hold up, lean, maintain, promote, provide support, reinforce, side, stand for, stick by, subsidize, support, sustain, to advocate, to aid, to assist, to back up, to bolster up, to come out for sy, to espouse, to faster, to favor, to flank, to foster, to further, to give countenance to sy, to hold up, to patronize, to second, to side with sy, to subserve, to subsidize, to succour, to support, to thicken, uphold). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menopang (buffer, buttress, sustain, underlay, underset, uphold). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earupbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sustentar (abide, feed, hold, hold up, insist, maintain, nourish, poise, prop, repose, support, sustain, truss, underpin, vindicate), suportar (abet, abide, back, back up, bear, bear out, brace, carry out, dree, endure, lean, put up with, suffer, support, sustain, tolerate, uphold), levantar (billow, boost, bring up, build, carry up, elevate, erect, hale, hoist, hoist up, hold up, jack, lift, mount, pitch, provoke, pull up, put up, raise, rear, rough, rouse, set up, up, upheave, uplift, upraise), erguer (bore, crane, elevate, erect, lever, lift, raise, rear, up, uplift, upraise, upturn), agüentar (abide, bear, bear up, bear with, carry out, endure, put up with, stand, stand up to, suffer, support, sustain, tolerate, withstand). (various references) | |
Russian | поддерживать (atlas, back, back up, bear out, bear up, befriend, bolster, buoy, buttress, carry, countenance, encourage, encouraged by, exhort, give support to, hold up, keep up, maintain, scaffolds, stand by, support, supported, sustain, underpin, uphold). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | podržavati (stand by). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | підтримувати (aliment, back, back up, bear up, block, bolster, carry, cheer, corroborate, encourage, favour, fortify, get behind, hold up, keep alive, maintain, play up, prop, pull, push, second, sponsor, stand for, support, sustain, underpin, underset, uphold), піднімати (boost, bring up, draw up, elevate, haul up, heave, heft, hoist, levitate, lift, prong, put up, raise, raise up, rear, set up, take up, up, uphold, uplift, waken). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "UPBEAR": upbearer, upbearers, upbearing, upbears. (additional references) | |
Words containing "UPBEAR": cupbearer, cupbearers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: pareu. | |
-2 letters: aper, bare, bear, beau, brae, bura, burp, pare, pear, prau, pure, rape, reap, rube, urea. | |
-3 letters: ape, arb, are, bap, bar, bra, bur, ear, eau, era, par, pea, per, pub, pur, rap, reb, rep, rub, rue, urb. | |
-4 letters: ab, ae, ar, ba, be, er, pa, pe, re, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: breakup, puberal, upbears. | |
+2 letters: abrupter, breakups, penumbra, pourable, prunable, pubertal, superbad, upbearer. | |
+3 letters: abruptest, cupbearer, euphorbia, groupable, parbuckle, penumbrae, penumbral, penumbras, reputable, reputably, superable, superably, superbank, upbearers, upbearing, upbraided, upbraider. | |
+4 letters: abruptness, bankrupted, cupbearers, euphorbias, paperbound, parbuckled, parbuckles, perdurable, perdurably, permutable, prepuberal, presumable, presumably, procurable, pulverable, recoupable, republican, subchapter, subprimate, superbanks, superboard, unprovable, upbraiders, upgradable. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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