Bear and Hog

Bear

Bear verb - To bring forth from the womb.

Hog and bear are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hog" instead a verb "Bear".

Nearby Words: bearing, bearish, bearer, bearskin, beared

Hog

Hog verb - Take greedily; take more than one's share.
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Synonyms for Hog

Bear and hog are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bear" instead a verb "Hog".

Common collocations

power bear power hog power
deal bear deal hog deal
time bear time hog time
items bear items hog items

Both words in one sentence

  • In Beowulf, our hero -now a king and becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the world- goes the whole-hog of taking off his armour, throwing away his sword, and ripping open his tunic to bear his chest to an enemy warrior, all the time telling him to kill him.
  • The Ren & Stimpy Show had an episode called "A Yard Too Far" that was basically the same plot as Yogi Bear's "Pie Pirates" episode except that the dog is replaced with a baboon and pies are replaced with hog jowls.
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