Word Finder - harbored

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To provide a harbor or safe place for.

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The docks, which once harbored tall ships, now harbor only petty thieves.

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To take refuge or shelter in a protected expanse of water.

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The fleet harbored in the south.

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To drive (a hunted stag) to covert.

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To hold or persistently entertain in one's thoughts or mind.

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She harbors a conviction that her husband has a secret, criminal past.

None of us would admit it out loud, but each harbored the same thought.

He may have harbored suspicions but he'd closeted his curiosity.

But he harbored deeper feelings on many subjects, particularly the sham of Christianity, noting them down and hiding them away.

Allowing stranger to paw through their quarters might seem tactless but I suppose I harbored animosity at their abrupt departure.

Malcolm X harbored these racist prejudices until he made the hajj in 1964.

The Spirit also investigates how Ebony wound up in a sultan's harem and why Commissioner Dolan harbored a criminal in his house.

Cheyletiella mites (frequently harbored by dogs and cats) Intensely itchy papules appear where the mites have fed on skin.

To ensure that no diseases are harbored in your seeds over the winter, it is best to put your tomato seeds through a fermentation process that will kill any pathogens that might be hiding amongst them.

The paramyxovirus that causes mumps is harbored in the saliva and is spread by sneezing, coughing, and other direct contact with another person's infected saliva.

One of the longest-running romantic interests in Star Trek history, Constable Odo struggled with the feelings he harbored toward Nerys for many years.

She harbored suspicions as a result of Howie's dreams and wanted to know if they were true.

David Dean harbored serious doubts about leaving Lydia Larkin's apartment without either contacting the police or calling an ambulance—or maybe a lawyer.

Though he harbored no regrets in declining her invitation to sex, he knew he could and should have handled so obviously unstable a person in such a mental state far better than he did.

Donnie just grimaced, an acknowledgment that he was paying attention to what was being said, and harbored no desire to see his stepfather.

It rose from the beach to the sky and harbored the source of the immortals' power in the immortal world.

Of course, he didn't know them, but their conversation right now indicated he harbored doubts.

If she had ever harbored any actual love for him, it was dead now, and couldn't be resurrected.

David Dean harbored serious doubts about leaving Lydia Larkin's apartment without either contacting the police or calling an ambulance—or maybe a lawyer.

Trying to convict her, he told her she had worn him out, had caused his quarrel with his son, had harbored nasty suspicions of him, making it the object of her life to poison his existence, and he drove her from his study telling her that if she did not go away it was all the same to him.

While Dean enjoyed the spectacle of the exciting contest, he harbored no envy toward its participants.

He harbored visions of the injured redhead out in the hinterland digging a grave for her recently murdered victim.

Still, he harbored misgivings about casual sex, and god knows this was as casual as it could get.