Beared vs Bewared - What's the difference?
beared | bewared |
(bear)
* 1996 , Jules Tygiel, The Great Los Angeles Swindle , page 124:
* Jack London, Hearts of Three
(obsolete) (beware)
* 1854 , , Robert Bell (ed.), The Cock and the Fox'' in ''The Poetical Works , page
* 1868 , Charles R. Sumner (trans.), , Accedence Commenced Grammar'' in ''The Prose Works , page
* 1864 , Frank Forester, The Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen , page
As verbs the difference between beared and bewared
is that beared is past tense of bear while bewared is past tense of beware.beared
English
Verb
(head)- The sudden emergence of a bull market generated panic among brokers who had "beared " or "shorted" the stock.
- For see, except where your holdings are concerned, the market is reasonable and right. But take your holdings. There's Frisco Consolidated. There is neither sense nor logic that it should be beared this way.
Usage notes
* This form is found especially in the finance sense. In most other senses, the past tense bore and past participle borne are generally preferred.bewared
English
Verb
(head)61
- But idiots only may be cozened twice:
- Once warned is well bewared ; [...]
445
- Cavissem, si prævidissem, I had bewared if I had foreseen.
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- Like the proverbial man of one book, the man of one gun is to be bewared .