to show that something is true or that someone is telling the truth
However, we did carry out the usual measurements and they bear out her observations.
I always said – and Rick will bear me out – that this wouldn’t work.
Now, that could bear out what I've always thought -- that Alec was set up, that he knew too much, and now he wants to blow it sky high.
Scientific evidence bears out the claim that stress and disease are linked.
bears out
bearing out
bore out
borne out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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