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What is the difference between supported and borne?

supported | borne |

As adjectives the difference between supported and borne

is that supported is held in position, especially from below while borne is carried, supported.

As verbs the difference between supported and borne

is that supported is (support) while borne is .

supported

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Held in position, especially from below.
  • Furnished with corroborating evidence.
  • Helped or aided.
  • Having supporters.
  • Antonyms

    * unsupported

    Verb

    (head)
  • (support)
  • borne

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • carried, supported.
  • * 1901 -
  • In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.
  • * 1881: ", Poems , page 44
  • When, bright with purple and with gold,
    Come priest and holy cardinal,
    And borne above the heads of all
    The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.
  • * c.2000 - , II
  • Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.

    Derived terms

    * airborne * waterborne

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1907 , , The Dust of Conflict chapter 21 [http://openlibrary.org/works/OL4429277W]
  • *:“Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you.”
  • Synonyms

    * endured