1. A person from whom you are descended
   - forebear

1. Refrain from doing
   "she forbore a snicker"
   - hold back 
2. Resist doing something
   "she could not forbear weeping"
   - refrain

Derived forms: forborne, forbore, forbears, forbearing

See also: forbearance

Type of: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root

• all the same
• all the time
• all the way
• all together
• all told
• all too
• all-American
• all-candidates meeting
• all-comers
• all-day sucker
• all-devouring
• all-dressed
• all-embracing
• all-encompassing
• all-fired
• all-important
• all-in wrestling
• all-inclusive
• all-knowing
• all-mains
• all-metal
• all-night
• all-nighter
• all-or-none
• all-or-none law