Defenition of the word forbear

• Defenition of the word forbear

  • a person from whom you are descended
  • not do something; "He refrained from hitting him back"
  • not do something; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping"
  • resist doing something
  • refrain from doing

Synonyms for the word forbear

• • abstain
  • forebear
  • hold back
  • refrain
  • restrain yourself
  • withhold

Similar words in the forbear

• • forbear
  • forbearance
  • forbearance's
  • forbearing
  • forbears

Hyponyms for the word forbear

• • abstain
  • forbear
  • grandparent
  • great grandparent
  • help
  • help oneself
  • hold back
  • leave
  • leave alone
  • leave behind
  • let it go
  • save
  • sit out
  • spare
  • stand by

Hypernyms for the word forbear

• • ancestor
  • antecedent
  • ascendant
  • ascendent
  • forbear
  • refrain
  • root

Antonyms for the word forbear

• • act
  • move

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  • Homonyms for the word forborne
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