States and conditions
Synonyms for forbear
The synonym for forbear recorded in this bank is refrain, in the sense "resist doing something". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for forbear
- refrainverb, in the sense "resist doing something"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day forbear is audited in a second meaning.
resist doing something
She could not forbear weeping.
The true synonym
refrain
Same sentence, swapped: She could not refrain weeping.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- act
- withstand
- stand
Where forbear turns up in the game
forbear is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play forbear
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so forbear reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other states and conditions words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. forbear carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.