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Synonyms for harbored

Grammar : Verb
Spell : hahr-ber
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɑr bər

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Définition of harbored

Origin :
  • Old English hereborgian, cognate with Old Norse herbergja, Old High German heribergon, Middle Dutch herbergen; see harbor (n.). Figuratively, of thoughts, etc., from late 14c. Related: Harbored; harboring.
  • verb hide, protect
  • verb hold in imagination
Example sentences :
  • A tree close to his suddenly fluttered with the unseen life it harbored.
  • Extract from : « The Bluff of the Hawk » by Anthony Gilmore
  • If he harbored any disappointment in him, he does not appear to have shown it.
  • Extract from : « Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark » by Jens Christian Aaberg
  • True, she has been told that it may be so—but the thought is not harbored for an instant.
  • Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 » by Various
  • It was not enough for Layton to protest that he harbored no such intentions.
  • Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever
  • If man was a rabbit, then perhaps he harbored the check to these creatures of flame.
  • Extract from : « The Whispering Spheres » by Russell Robert Winterbotham
  • If he had harbored any doubts as to his success, he banished them.
  • Extract from : « Tom Slade with the Colors » by Percy K. Fitzhugh
  • No thought of supremacy or greater advancement should be harbored for a moment.
  • Extract from : « The Right Knock » by Helen Van-Anderson
  • And I could have died of shame myself to think I had ever harbored them.
  • Extract from : « The La Chance Mine Mystery » by Susan Carleton Jones
  • I harbored you, thinking you were a frightened fugitive, and you weren't.
  • Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1919 » by Various
  • The rooms which he had there are shown and reverenced as places which have harbored genius.
  • Extract from : « My Recollections of Lord Byron » by Teresa Guiccioli

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