bear out
Verb
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Verb
bear out
- (transitive) To corroborate, prove, or confirm; to demonstrate; to provide evidence for.
- It was a promising idea, but the evidence did not bear out their theory.
- To maintain and support to the end; to defend to the last.
- Company only can bear a man out in an ill thing.
- French: confirmer, corroborer
- German: bestätigen
- Italian: confermare
- Portuguese: confirmar, corroborar
- Spanish: confirmar, corroborar
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