Bear

//bɛə//

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Verb
Noun
Proper Noun
Adjective

The word "bear" can be used as verb, noun, proper noun and adjective.

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American black bear Arctic bear Asian black bear Atlas bear Australian bear Auvergne bear Bear Creek Bear Island Bear Lake Bear River Bearhead Bears Lagoon Bearspaw Bernard Big Bear City Big Bear Lake Big Bear Valley Deninger's bear Etruscan bear Gobi bear Great Bear Great Bear Lake Himalayan brown bear Himalayan red bear Japanese bear Japanese black bear Jer-bear Kermode bear Kiwi bear Little Bear Louisiana black bear Malay bear Malayan bear Russian bear Syrian bear Syrian brown bear Walking Bear White Bear ant bear ant-bear antibear average bear bear a grudge bear a hand bear against bear away bear away the bell bear bait bear baiting bear banger bear board bear cage bear cat bear claw bear crawl bear cub bear date bear down bear down on bear false witness bear fruit bear garden bear garlic bear grass bear hang bear hug bear in bear in mind bear in on bear in the air bear in with bear leader bear market bear meat bear off bear off from bear on bear oneself bear otter bear out bear paw bear pit bear poppy bear raid bear sign bear spear bear spider bear spray bear spread bear tamer bear the bell bear the brunt bear the scars bear trap bear up bear upon bear walker bear with bear witness bear's breech bear's-paw bear-bait bear-baiting bear-leader bear-paw poppy bear-trap dam bear-ward bear-whelp bearability bearable bearbait bearbaiter bearbaiting bearberry bearcat beardog beardom bearer bearess bearess beargrass bearheaded bearherd bearhound bearie bearing sword bearish bearleader bearleap bearless bearlet bearlike bearling bearly bearmeal bearmode bearness bearproof bearship bearshit bearskin beartrap bearward beary beware of Greeks bearing gifts black bear bring to bear brown bear bug-bear care bear carebear cat bear cave bear cinnamon bear cross to bear dancing bear does a bear crap in the woods does a bear poop in the woods does a bear shit in the woods does the bear shit in the woods dog-bear don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear double-bearing downbear drop bear drop-bear forbear forthbear grin and bear it grizzly bear grolar bear gummi bear gummy bear he-bear honey bear ice bear inbear is a bear Catholic is the bear Catholic isabelline bear jungle bear koala bear kodiak bear labiated bear lava bear like a bear with a sore head lip bear loaded for bear mad as a bear with a sore head mama bear mama-bear mamma bear micro-bear microbear mini-bear minibear misbear momma bear moon bear mottled bear mumma bear native bear not bear thinking about off-bear offbear outbear overbear owlbear panda bear papa bear papa-bear particoloured bear pedobear permabear pizzly bear poke the bear polar bear polar bear dip polar bear plunge polar bear swim pookie bear problem bear rebear right to keep and bear arms sand bear sea bear she-bear short-faced bear sloth bear smokey bear snow bear snowbear sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you space bear spectacled bear spirit bear spokesbear sugar bear sun bear superbear teddie bear teddy bear tree bear unbear unbearability underbear upbear water bear weight bear weight-bear werebear white bear problem withbear woolly bear woolly bear caterpillar woolly-bear wooly bear yellow bear

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Receives Action

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