bear out
Related to bear out: bring to bear, bear with, bear up, brought to bear
bear out
To support or prove a claim or idea. If you didn't do anything wrong, then the investigation will bear out your innocence.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
bear something out
[for facts or evidence] to support or confirm a story or explanation. The facts don't bear this out. Her story bears out exactly what you said.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
bear out
Back up or confirm, as in The results bear out what he predicted, or His story bears me out exactly. [Late 1400s]
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
bear out
v.
To be evidence that something is true or that what someone says is true; support something or someone: The test results bear out our claims. I told them my side of the story and the evidence bore me out.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
- bear testimony to (something)
- as much as the traffic will bear
- traffic
- bearing
- bear cage
- take the bear by the tooth
- bear up
- play dead
- (as) hungry as a bear
- hungry as a bear