Verb

(en verb)

(finance) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.

to bear a railroad stock

to bear the market

Verb

To support or sustain; to hold up.

This stone bears most of the weight.

To carry something.

* (rfdate), (Shakespeare):

I'll bear your logs the while.

* 2005 , Lesley Brown, translator, :

imitations that bear the same name as the things

* {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266 citation

, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=1954

, month=03 , first=Ray , last=Bradbury , title=All Summer in a Day , volume=6 , issue=3 , page=122 , magazine=The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , publisher=Fantasy House, Inc. , issn= citation , passage=They surged about her, caught her up and bore her }}

To be equipped with (something).

the right to bear arms

To wear or display.

The shield bore a red cross.

To declare as testimony.

The jury could see he was bearing''' false '''witness .

To put up with something.

I would never move to Texas—I can't bear heat.

Please bear with me as I ramble on and on about nothing very important, such as that time when I was in Montana and I may have seen a mountain lion, but it was pretty far off and it was raining—the weather, not the lion—and the car broke down...

To give birth to someone or something (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object).

In Troy she becomes Paris’ wife, bearing him several children, all of whom die in infancy.

(ambitransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.

* (rfdate), (John Dryden)

this age to blossom, and the next to bear

To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).

The harbour bears north by northeast.

By my readings, we're bearing due south, so we should turn about ten degrees east.

Great Falls bears north of Bozeman.

To suffer, as in carrying a burden.

* (rfdate) (Alexander Pope):

Man is born to bear .

To endure with patience; to be patient.

* (rfdate) (John Dryden):

I cannot, cannot bear .

To press; with on'', ''upon'', or ''against .

* (rfdate) (Addison):

These men bear hard on the suspected party.

To take effect; to have influence or force.

to bring matters to bear

To relate or refer; with on'' or ''upon .

How does this bear on the question?

To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.

* (rfdate) (Nathaniel Hawthorne):

Her sentence bore that she should stand a certain time upon the platform.

(obsolete) To conduct; to bring (a person).

* (rfdate) (Shakespeare):

Bear them to my house.

To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.

* (rfdate) Bible, Esther 1.22:

Every man should bear rule in his own house.

To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.

* (rfdate) (Shakespeare):

the ancient grudge I bear him

(obsolete) To gain or win.

* (rfdate) (Francis Bacon):

Some think to bear it by speaking a great word.

* (rfdate) (Latimer):

She was found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge.

To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).

* (rfdate) Bible, Isaiah 53:11:

He shall bear their iniquities.

* (rfdate) (John Dryden):

somewhat that will bear your charges

To carry on, or maintain; to have.

* (rfdate) (John Locke):

the credit of bearing a part in the conversation

To admit or be capable of; to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.

* (rfdate) (Jonathan Swift):

In all criminal cases the most favourable interpretation should be put on words that they can possibly bear .

To manage, wield, or direct; to behave or conduct (oneself).

* (rfdate) (Shakespeare):

Thus must thou thy body bear .

* (rfdate) (Shakespeare):

Hath he borne himself penitently in prison?

To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.

* (rfdate) (Alexander Pope):

His faithful dog shall bear him company.

Verb

(label) To obtain; to acquire.

(label) To receive.

* , chapter=8

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}

To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get .

(label) To become.

* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

* , chapter=8

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}

(label) To cause to become; to bring about.

*

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}

(label) To fetch, bring, take.

* Bible, (w) xxxi. 13

Get thee out from this land.

* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)

Heto the strong town of Mega.

(label) To cause to do.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Get him to say his prayers.

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=5, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}

To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

to get rid of fools and scoundrels

(label) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.

to get a mile

(label) To cause to come or go or move.

(label) To cause to be in a certain status or position.

* (Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Retro me, Sathana , line 1

Get thee behind me.

(label) To begin (doing something).

(label) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).

(label) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).

To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).

To be subjected to.

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Do you mind? Excuse me / I saw you over there / Can I just tell you ¶ Although there are millions of / Cephalophores that wander through this world / You've got something extra going on / I think you probably know ¶ You probably get that a lot / I'll bet that people say that a lot to you, girl

(label) To be.

*

(label) To become ill with or catch (a disease).

To catch out, trick successfully.

To perplex, stump.

(label) To find as an answer.

To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.

(label) To hear completely; catch.

(label) To .

To beget (of a father).

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I had rather to adopt a child than get it.

* 2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 310:

Walter had said, dear God, Thomas, it was St fucking Felicity if I'm not mistaken, and her face was to the wall for sure the night I got you.

(label) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out .

* (1625-1686)

it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty

Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.

*2007 , Tom Dyckhoff, Let's move to ..., The Guardian :

Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh, get her) is promised.