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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | refrain |
| Has types | let alone, let it go, save, sit out, spare, stand by, abstain, help, help oneself, hold back, leave, leave alone, leave behind |
| Derivation | forbearance |
she could not forbear weeping.
forbear::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | forebear |
| Type of | antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root, ancestor |
| Has types | grandparent, great grandparent |
Examples of forbear
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In the process it becomes, like its forbear, one of the best Legend Of Zelda games never made.
From the metro.co.uk
He had forborne, hoping others would forbear, and they had not.
From the time.com
So it may forbear, and the consequence may be inflation.
From the theatlantic.com
Some analysts, however, have said investors worry that the FCC won't be able to forbear on all those rules.
From the washingtonpost.com
Equity, however, enters injunctions or decrees directing someone either to act or to forbear from acting.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Forbear resenting Injuries so much as you think they deserve.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Even New Zealanders could not forbear to cheer England's great attacking exponent as he was led away.
From the express.co.uk
But even he can scarce forbear to cheer the dash of the confederacy's cavalry and the resilience of its infantry.
From the economist.com
Her forbear, an English blacksmith called George Ashby, set sail for the wilderness of Barbados in the late 1630s.
From the economist.com
- Forebear: a person from whom you are descended
- Refrain from doing; "she forbore a snicker"
- Refrain: resist doing something; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping"
- (forbearance) patience: good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
- (forbearance) a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting; "his forbearance to reply was alarming"
- (forbearing) showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment; "seemly and forbearing...yet strong enough to resist aggression"; "was longanimous in the face of suffering"
- In the context of a mortgage process, forbearance is a special agreement between the lender and the borrower to delay a foreclosure. The literal meaning of forbearance is u201Cholding back.u201D
- Alternative spelling of forebear; To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay; To refuse; to decline; to give no heed; To control oneself when provoked
- (forbearance) Restraint under provocation; A refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due
