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bear out
verb
- tr, adverb to show to be true or truthful; confirm
the witness will bear me out
Idioms and Phrases
Back up or confirm, as in The results bear out what he predicted , or His story bears me out exactly . [Late 1400s]Example Sentences
It is a feeling partly borne out of the frustration and isolation of living in a hearing-centred world.
Yet, you get the sense Pocehttino's desire to lead the US to the World Cup is genuine and not a mindset borne out of stipulations relating to his contract.
The witches are thus active instruments in the fate that befalls Macbeth, making him somewhat more of a puppet of their otherworldly mischief than a closer reading of the text might bear out.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials were able to lure that bear out using peanut butter and rotisserie chicken and relocate it to the Angeles National Forest.
The figures for the year up to July 2025, a year on from the election, will be closely scrutinised to see if this trend and the pledge have been borne out.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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