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Bear Away

Definition: Bear Away

Bear Away

Verb

1. Remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state; "Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands"; "The car carried us off to the meeting"; "I'll take you away on a holiday"; "I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Bear Away

Synonyms: bear off (v), carry away (v), carry off (v), take away (v). (additional references)
Antonym: bring (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Bear Away

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inexpedience

Be good; Adjective: excel, transcend; (be superior); bear away the bell.

Success

Come off well, come off successful, come off with flying colors; make short work of; take by storm, carry by storm; bear away the bell; win one's wings, win one's spurs, win the battle; win the day, carry the day, gain the day, gain the prize, gain the palm; have the best of it, have it all one's own way, have the game in one's owns hands, have the ball at one's feet, have one on the hop; walk over the course; carry all before one, remain in possession of the field; score a success.

Taking

Take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off; adeem; abstract; hurry off with, run away with; abduct; steal; ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon; swoop to, swoop down upon; take by storm, take by assault; snatch, reave.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Bear Away

English words defined with "bear away": To carry off. (references)
Specialty definitions using "bear away": Hook or Crook. (references)

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Expressions: Bear Away

Expressions using "bear away": bear away the bell To bear away To bear away the bell. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: Bear Away

Language Translations for "bear away"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏كسب الجائزة. (various references)

   

French

  

laisser porter (bear up), abattre (bear up). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πρυμνίζω, παίρνω (carry off, clear away, collect, contract, derive, get, take, take in), ποδίζω (seek refuge in a harbour). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

diadalt arat (to bear away the bell, to ring the bell). (various references)

   

Italian

  

puggiare (bear up), poggiare (abet, base oneself, lean, perch, rest, support, sustain). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earbay awayay

   

Romanian

  

da la o parte (bear off, clear, disseize, move away, open, throw by, wedge off), câştiga (acquire, bear off, carry, carry off, clean, come by, conciliate, conquer, convert, draw the winner, earn, find, gain, gain smb. over, make, obtain, overcome, purchase, score, steal, sweep, take the cake, win). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

llevarse (bear off, blow away, bring away, carry away, carry off, drive away, get, take away, take off, walk away, walk off, wash, win). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

taşımak (bear, carry, carry away, convey, haul, put across, relocate, remove, ride, run, stanchion, sustain, tote, transport, waft, walk, wash, wear), sallanmak (be slung from, dawdle, dilly dally, dodder, flap, flirt, hang about, hang around, hang down, hang on, hover, keep oneself close, loiter, lurch, oscillate, quake, rock, shake, sway, swing, take a swing, teeter, toss, vibrate, waggle, wave, waver, wobble), götürmek (bear, carry, carry away, conduce, get, guide, lead, lead on, put across, remove, take, take away, take off, usher, whip off). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

віднести, захопити (capture, catch, clinch, collar, cop, rap, take by storm, win), завоювати (capture, vanquish). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bear Away

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-e-r-w-y"

-1 letter: areaway.

-2 letters: aweary, bewray.

-3 letters: aware, barye, weary, yerba.

-4 letters: abye, aery, area, away, awry, bare, bear, brae, braw, bray, brew, byre, eyra, raya, ware, wary, wear, yare, year.

-5 letters: aba, aby, arb, are, awa, awe, aye, baa, bar, bay, bey, bra, bye, ear, era, raw, ray, reb, rya, rye, wab, wae, war, way, web.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-b-e-r-w-y"
 

+1 letter: breakaway.

 

+2 letters: breakaways, breaksaway.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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