Synonyms of forbear

forbear

verb

fȯr-ˈber 

as in to avoid

to resist the temptation of

she's old enough to make her own decisions, so we must forbear criticizing her taste in clothes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• avoid
• keep (from)
• refrain (from)
• forgo
• forego
• deny
• withhold (from)
• abstain (from)
• abjure
• refuse
• shun
• eschew
• constrain
• curb
• check
• inhibit
• repudiate
• reject
• combat
• fight
• buck

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• submit (to)
• yield (to)
• surrender (to)
• bow (to)
• give in (to)
• succumb (to)
• capitulate
• concede (to)
• acquiesce (to)
• knuckle under (to)

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of forbear

The Commission has never reversed a decision to forbear in this situation. —Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2024

Tuesday’s proposal makes the same commitment, the people said, forbearing from 26 provisions of Title II and more than 700 other agency rules that could be seen as intrusive. —Brian Fung, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023

The limitation of unanimous consent agreements is that on matters of controversy, senators are not going to mutually agree to forbear. —Jay Cost, Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2021

So, if a person is enacting their right to resistance, then bystanders have an obligation to forbear and not to interfere. —TheWeek, 12 Apr. 2020

But crucially, the FCC did not forbear from a few parts of Title II that protect consumers in other ways. —Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 12 July 2017