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bear up (third-person singular simple present bears up, present participle bearing up, simple past bore up, past participle borne up)

1. (nautical) To sail close to the wind.
2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To endure hardship cheerfully or without complaining.
3. (idiomatic, transitive) To support; to keep from falling or sinking.
   • 1712 September 10 (Gregorian calendar)​, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele [et al.], “SATURDAY, August 30, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 471; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     [Religious hope] does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings.

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