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View definitions for borne

borne

adjective as in carried

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The most egregious uses of lethal force have been borne by people with intellectual disabilities and children.

Graffiti was borne out of the South Bronx streets as one of the key pillars of the hip-hop movement.

No city has borne a greater share of pain from the fracturing of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel than Héctor's beloved Acapulco.

And since 2000, the White House briefing room has borne his name.

For more than two hundred years, human rights have been (as the term implies) rights borne by individuals.

All parties have borne testimony to the value of his services, and the eminence of his talents.

The authorization borne by him was very extraordinary and had a great excess of the ordinary warrants.

A chair covered with red silk, borne on the shoulders of sixteen chair-men, passed up to the temple.

Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.

The lively one had forgotten altogether about the unknown girl she and Jessie had seen borne away in the big French car.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to borne, such as: null, endured, narrow, produced, rode, and tolerated.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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