Bear: take, handle or accept(verb)
I saw this word being used in the story “A Jury of her peers” by Susan Glaspell in the sentence “The picture of that girl, the fact that she had lived neighbor to that girl for twenty years, and had let her die for a lack of life, was suddenly more than she could bear.” She couldn’t handle or accept the fact that she didn’t help Minnie Foster even though she was her neighbor and could have helped. She felt guilty about this and the realization of that made it too much for her to handle. This is how I have come to understand the meaning of the word bear.
