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- Dictionaryborne/bɔːn/
verb
- 1. past participle of bear
adjective
- 1. carried or transported by the thing specified: "insect-borne pollen"
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BORNE definition: 1. past participle of bear 2. carried or moved by a particular thing: 3. past participle of bear. Learn more.
Both born and borne are forms of bear. Born is commonly used with the sense of bear meaning 'to give birth.' Borne is used in reference to carrying something (physically or figuratively), as a combining form with words like air, and, occasionally, in the 'give birth to' sense.
Borne is, just like born, the past participle of the verb bear, which can mean (among other things) "to contain" or "to give birth to." At first, borne and born were variant spellings of the same adjective.
1. to hold up or support: The columns bear the weight of the roof. 2. to give birth to: to bear a child. 3. to produce by natural growth: a tree that bears fruit. 4. to sustain or be capable of: This claim doesn't bear close examination. The view bears comparison with the loveliest sights.
verb. for all active uses of the verb, the past participle of bear 1. for all passive uses of the verb except sense 4 unless followed by by, the past participle of bear 1. be borne in on or be borne in upon. (of a fact) to be realized by (someone) it was borne in on us how close we had been to disaster.
-borne combines with nouns to form adjectives that describe the method or means by which something is carried or moved. ...water-borne diseases. ...a mosquito-borne infection.
Bear, bore, borne. Bear means to tolerate something, usually something that you dislike. It is most commonly used in the expression can’t bear. The past form is bore and the - ed form is borne: I can’t bear so much football on television.
