- bear someone up
- bear someone up†to sustain or encourage someone. •
Your encouragement bore me up through a very hard time.
•I will bear up the widow through the funeral service as well as I can.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
bear someone up
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bear*/ — [beə] (past tense bore [bɔː] ; past participle borne [bɔːn] ) verb [T] I 1) if you cannot bear someone or something, you do not like them at all or cannot accept them Most of her friends can t bear her husband.[/ex] She couldn t bear the thought… … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
