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borne  (bôrn, brn)
v.
A past participle of bear1.
borne [bɔːn]
vb
1. (Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) the past participle of bear1 (for all active uses of the verb; also for all passive uses except sense 4 unless followed by by)
be borne in on or upon (of a fact) to be realized by (someone) it was borne in on us how close we had been to disaster
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Though unable to walk, she had arrived borne aloft in an armchair (her mode of conveyance for the last five years), as brisk, aggressive, self-satisfied, bolt-upright, loudly imperious, and generally abusive as ever.
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But for all the dangers and vicissitudes they underwent, she and her crew might have borne charmed lives up to within an hour of the abating of the hurricane.
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Borne backward to the earth, he saw above him the dead and drawn face within a hand's breadth of his own, and then all was black.
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