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Collocations for bear - noun

Bear is used before these nouns:
habitat, hunt, market, trap

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Collocations for bear - verb

1. accept/deal with sth

VERB + bear

be able to, can
Don't leave me alone. I wouldn't be able to bear it.
How can you bear this awful noise?
be unable to, cannot
can hardly, can scarcely
We could hardly bear to be outdoors in the blinding sunlight.

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2. be responsible for sth

VERB + bear

have to, must
Do parents have to bear the whole cost of tuition?
You must bear at least some responsibility for what has happened.

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bear on/upon sb/sth - PHRASAL VERB

ADVERB

heavily
The burden of the tax bore most heavily on the poor.
directly
information not bearing directly on (= not directly relevant to) his argument

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Bear is used with these nouns as the subject:
banner, door, inscription, interest, market, sign, tree

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Bear is used with these nouns as the object:
animosity, arms, blame, bloom, blossom, brunt, burden, child, comparison, consequence, cost, crop, daughter, expense, flower, fruit, gift, grudge, guilt, hardship, illness, image, impression, imprint, initial, inscription, label, likeness, load, logo, malice, mark, meaning, name, pain, relation, relationship, relevance, resemblance, responsibility, risk, scar, scrutiny, sign, signature, similarity, slogan, son, spine, stamp, stigma, stress, surname, symbol, testament, testimony, title, trace, tray, weight

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