weight-bear

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Back-formation from weight-bearing.

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weight-bear (third-person singular simple present weight-bears, present participle weight-bearing, simple past weight-beared or weight-bore, past participle weight-beared or weight-borne)

  1. (medicine) To bear weight; to support or withstand the weight of the body.

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