Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being endured.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being borne; tolerable; endurable; supportable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
borne ;tolerable ;endurable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being borne though unpleasant
Etymologies
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Examples
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I remember seeing a gentleman who had the preceding day travelled two stages in a chaise with what he termed a bearable pain in his bowels; which when I saw him had ceased rather suddenly, and without a passage through him; his pulse was then weak, though not very quick; but as nothing which he swallowed would continue in his stomach many minutes, I concluded that the bowel was mortified; he died on the next day.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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The only thing that makes our humanity bearable is love.
Tori McClure talks about rowing across the Atlantic Ocean, a story she records in Pearl in the Storm 2010
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What you will need to make the night bearable is some conifer boughs from another tree to use as bedding.
what is the best kind of shelter for a snowy environment? 2009
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If you can't laugh at life, even if a bit darkly, it's not very bearable is it?
New Icon amberfocus 2009
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What you will need to make the night bearable is some conifer boughs from another tree to use as bedding.
what is the best kind of shelter for a snowy environment? 2009
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Israel must be an awfully dreary and deprived place if the only way to make it bearable is make the neighboring countries seem worse by destroying their infrastructure.
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What we did have which made it bearable is a pretty constant onshore breeze and of course ceiling fans.
How liveable is year-round climate in La Penita (north of PV) without air conditioning? 2007
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What we did have which made it bearable is a pretty constant onshore breeze and of course ceiling fans.
How liveable is year-round climate in La Penita (north of PV) without air conditioning? 2007
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What we did have which made it bearable is a pretty constant onshore breeze and of course ceiling fans.
How liveable is year-round climate in La Penita (north of PV) without air conditioning? 2007
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What we did have which made it bearable is a pretty constant onshore breeze and of course ceiling fans.
How liveable is year-round climate in La Penita (north of PV) without air conditioning? 2007
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