Definition of "forebore" [forebore]

• Simple past tense and past participle of forebear. (verb)

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• "Even Sundry Buyers, who had drifted aft in his stupidity instead of being for'ard with his own officer, forebore to stare about and to press his abdomen."
• "So huge was Kit's disgust that he forebore to speak."
• "After Margaret had told me to be hard I watched Tom Spink with an eagle eye, and he must have sensed my attitude, for he carefully forebore from overstepping, while all the time he palpitated just on the edge of overstepping."