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View synonyms for bear up

bear up

verb

  1. intr, adverb to endure cheerfully
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Endure, face a hardship, as in Jane found it hard to bear up under the strain of her father's illness . This term is also used as an imperative, as in Bear up—the trip's almost over . [c. 1600]
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Example Sentences

Will our societies bear up under the lightning that is crashing down on them?

The utmost circumspection became necessary, and the young preacher had to bear up against much strife and opposition.

But when these flattering hopes vanished, did he, and did my mother bear up against so unexpected a calamity?

A courage of a quite exceptional temper must have been required to bear up under such a blow without any spur of personal vanity.

She could bear up against her suspense and agitation no longer; she rose, threw on her robe de nuit, and descended the stairs.

We will give him two more broadsides with grape through his stern windows, and then bear up after that lumbering merchantman.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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