BEAR UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bear up mean? 

• BEAR UP (verb)
  The verb BEAR UP has 1 sense:

1. endure cheerfully

  Familiarity information: BEAR UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEAR UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Endure cheerfully

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

She bore up under the enormous strain

Hypernyms (to "bear up" is one way to...):

abide; bear; brook; digest; endure; put up; stand; stick out; stomach; suffer; support; tolerate (put up with something or somebody unpleasant)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

“You must bear up, sir, if you please—bear up until you see you're gaining.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Let me be prosaic so far as facts can be; it will help me to bear up, and imagination must not run riot with me. If it does I am lost.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Pooh! No—a mere scratch. Don't be so overcome, man: bear up! I'll fetch a surgeon for you now, myself: you'll be able to be removed by morning, I hope. Jane," he continued.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Long letters from her, quickly succeeding each other, arrived to tell all that she suffered and thought; to express her anxious solicitude for Marianne, and entreat she would bear up with fortitude under this misfortune.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)