bear up

1. 1.

   endure cheerfully

   “She bore up under the enormous strain”

   Broaderdigest

Questions about bear up

What does bear up mean?

bear up means "endure cheerfully".

Is bear up a common word?

bear up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.