Meaning of bear out | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To corroborate, prove, or confirm; to demonstrate; to provide evidence for.
   transitive
2. To maintain and support to the end; to defend to the last.
3. To move quickly and sharply in an outward direction during a race; to veer out.
   intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“It was a promising idea, but the evidence did not bear⟳ out their theory.”

“Time has borne McCarthy out; but see⟳ Schank (1983) for a plea that learning should now be reactivated as a central research⟳ topic.”

“But the idea that Singapore is a deregulated paradise is not borne out by reality, as anyone who has tried to dispose of a piece of used chewing gum there will know⟳.”

“It is company only that can bear⟳ a man out in an ill thing”

“If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark ; weave round them tragic graces ; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among them all, shall at times lift⟳ himself to the exalted mounts ; if I shall touch⟳ that workman's arm with some ethereal light⟳ ; if I shall spread⟳ a rainbow over his disastrous set⟳ of sun ; then against all mortal critics bear⟳ me out in it, thou just spirit of Equality, which hast spread⟳ one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind ! Bear⟳ me out in it, thou great democratic God !”

“That horse always bears out on the turns.”

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