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Definition: Bear Off |
Bear OffVerb1. 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 OffSynonyms: bear away (v), carry away (v), carry off (v), take away (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: bring (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deviation | Verb: alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend; bend, curve; swerve, heel, bear off; gybe, wear. |
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. | |
Crosswords: Bear Off |
| English words defined with "bear off": To bear off. (references) |
Expressions using "bear off": bear off the palm ♦ To bear off. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "bear off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | понасям (bear, bide, carry, carry off, digest, drag along, go, incur, play along, pocket, see, stand, stick, suffer, support, sweep away, take, tolerate, undergo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ymmyrkey ersooyl (carry off), dy lhie mooie jeh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | earbay offay da la o parte (bear away, clear, disseize, move away, open, throw by, wedge off), câştiga (acquire, bear away, 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), ţine la distanţã (keep off). (various references) llevarse (bear away, blow away, bring away, carry away, carry off, drive away, get, take away, take off, walk away, walk off, wash, win), alejarse (draw away, estrange, flounce away, move away, move off, pass over, recede, walk away, walk off). (various references) bära av. (various references) відхилятися (deflect, deviate, diverge, incline, lapse, run off, skew, stray, swerve, trend, turn, turn aside). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-f-o-r" | |
-2 letters: afore, offer. | |
-3 letters: aero, baff, bare, barf, bear, boar, boff, bora, bore, brae, fare, faro, fear, fora, forb, fore, frae, froe, raff, robe. | |
-4 letters: abo, aff, arb, are, arf, bar, boa, bra, bro, ear, eff, era, far, fer, fob, foe, for, fro, oaf, oar, obe, off, ora, orb, ore, reb, ref, rob, roe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-f-f-o-r" | |
+3 letters: affordable. | |
+4 letters: forfeitable. | |
+5 letters: buffaloberry, flabelliform, shuffleboard, unaffordable. | |
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