English Dictionary

forbear

/fɔːˈbɛə/

verb

(transitive) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from. / (intransitive) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. / (intransitive) To refuse; to decline; to withsay; to unheed.

I will forbear from making any comments on the matter.

意味（1）

(transitive) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from.

Mr. Sheriff, I desire that this manacling may be forborn: if you please to clap a guard of a hundred men upon us, I shall pay for it. This is not only a disgrace to me, but in general to all soldiers; which doth more trouble me than the loss of my life.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.

Por[tia]. I pray you tarrie, pauſe a day or two / Before you hazard, for in chooſing wrong / I looſe your companie ; therefore forbeare a while, /…

意味（3）

(intransitive) To refuse; to decline; to withsay; to unheed.

And thou ſhalt ſpeake my words vnto them, whether they will heare or whether they will forbeare, for they are moſt rebellious.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To control oneself when provoked.

The kindest and the happiest pair / Will find occasion to forbear.