Crossword-Solution: FORBEAR 7 letters, 30 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Forbear n. An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.
Forbear v. i. To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
Forbear v. i. To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
Forbear v. i. To control one's self when provoked.
Forbear v. t. To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give
up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.
Forbear v. t. To treat with consideration or indulgence.
Forbear v. t. To cease from bearing.

We have 30 clues for the answer “FORBEAR”

Clue Answers
Refrain (from) 8 answers
Stay away (from) 10 answers
forego 11 answers
Forefather. 14 answers
Forebear 15 answers
Eschew 20 answers
Abstain from 22 answers
Refrain 22 answers
Withhold. 28 answers
BACK off 30 answers
BE patient 31 answers
ancestor 33 answers
Parent 34 answers
Abstainer 35 answers
Desist 36 answers
Abstain 37 answers
predecessor 37 answers
humanise 41 answers
Persist 44 answers
Keep back 45 answers
Resist 46 answers
Undergo 47 answers
Re-nounce 49 answers
Stomach 50 answers
Endure 51 answers
Hold Back 58 answers
Avoid 60 answers
Precursor. 60 answers
Forfeit 65 answers
Harbinger 81 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FORBEAR (5)

When the repast was about to commence, the major-domo, or steward, suddenly raising his wand, said aloud,—“Forbear!—Place for the Lady Rowena.” A side-door at the upper end of the hall now opened behind the banquet table, and Rowena, followed by four female attendants, entered the apartment.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
Franklin appeared to think it a point of honour to forbear repeating to a servant—even to so old a servant as I was—what Miss Rachel had said to him on the terrace.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994
The author of a work in quarto in two volumes, on the ‘Mysteries of the Great Submarine Grounds’ cannot forbear embarking with Commander Farragut.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994
Yet, as he thought of it all, he remembered that if he would do, he must needs bear and forbear; and his face cleared, and he looked round about again and let his eyes rest calmly on all eyes that he met till they came on the Lord's face again.
The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008
Nevertheless he saw no sufficient reason to forbear uttering the words he had had on his conscience from the beginning.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006

Quotes with FORBEAR (3)

The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. T…
John Stuart Mill On Liberty
Flow gently, sweet Afton, amang thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing theea song in thy praise; My Mary's asleepby thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Thou stock dove whose echoresounds thro' the glen, Ye wild whistly blackbirdsin yon thorny den, Thou green crested lapwingthy screaming forbear, I charge you, disturb notmy slumbering fair. How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighboring hills, Far mark'd with the coursesof clear winding rills; Ther…
Robert Burns
Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, …
John Donne The Complete English Poems
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