bear out

verb

Etymology: From Middle English beren out, dissimilated from earlier Middle English outberen, equivalent to bear + out.

1. To corroborate, prove, or confirm; to demonstrate; to provide evidence for.

   “It was a promising idea, but the evidence did not bear out their theory.”

   “bear someone out on something”

2. To maintain and support to the end; to defend to the last.

   “'Tis Company only that can bear a Man out in an ill Thing”

   “If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark ; weave round them tragic graces ; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts ; if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light ; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous set of sun ; then against all mortal critics bear me out in it, thou just spirit of Equality, which hast spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind ! Bear me out in it, thou great democratic God !”

3. To move quickly and sharply in an outward direction during a race; to veer out.

   “That horse always bears out on the turns.”