Crossword clues for bear up
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context nautical English) To sail close to the wind. 2 (context idiomatic intransitive English) To endure hardship cheerfully. 3 (context idiomatic transitive English) To support; to keep from falling or sinking.
WordNet
v. endure cheerfully; "She bore up under the enormous strain"
Usage examples of "bear up".
Had not many contending ideas enabled me to bear up under all I saw and heard, my senses must have forsaken me.
Mounting the marble steps, the jewelers entered a vast, roofless hall where cyclopean columns towered as if to bear up the desert sky.
Peez said, picking the little bear up by the scruff of his neck and sticking him in the crook of her arm.
Nothing could save them, but gaining the mouth of the Firth of Tay, and then they could bear up for Dundee.
If so be a time comes when yeh have to be kilt or do a mean thing, why, Henry, don't think of anything 'cept what's right, because there's many a woman has to bear up 'ginst sech things these times, and the Lord'll take keer of us all.
It didn't bother Gray that Bear would bear up under discomfort with more equanimity than Gray could manageĀ.
Fotheringay quickly gathered up scabbards, and the Khan was, safely scabbarded, in Gray's hand where it belonged, freeing Bigglesworth to be to find something to cover Bear up with.