Usually means: Chose not to take action.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word forbore:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. forbore: Merriam-Webster
  2. forbore: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forbore: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. forbore: Collins English Dictionary
  5. forbore: Wordnik
  6. forbore: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. forbore: Wiktionary
  8. forbore: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. forbore: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. forbore: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Forbore, forbore: Dictionary.com
  12. forbore: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Forbore: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. forbore: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Forbore: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. forbore: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. forbore: FreeDictionary.org
  18. forbore: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. forbore: Vocabulary.com
  20. forbore: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forbore: Legal dictionary

(Note: See forbear as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from.
verb:  (intransitive) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
verb:  (intransitive) To refuse; to decline; to withsay; to unheed.
verb:  (intransitive) To control oneself when provoked.
noun:  Alternative spelling of forebear [An ancestor.]
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