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    har·bor
    [ˈhärbər]
    verb
    harbored (past tense) · harbored (past participle)
    1. keep (a thought or feeling, typically a negative one) in one's mind, especially secretly:
      "she started to harbor doubts about the wisdom of their journey"
    2. shelter or hide (a criminal or wanted person):
      "he was suspected of harboring an escaped prisoner"
      • give a home or shelter to (an organism):
        "the water can become stagnant, harboring bacteria and other microorganisms" · "some of these planets may harbor life" · "woodlands that once harbored a colony of red deer"
      • carry the germs of (a disease):
        "patients who may have been harboring tuberculosis"
    3. archaic
      (of a ship or its crew) moor in a harbor:
      "he might have harbored in San Francisco"
    Origin
    late Old English herebeorg ‘shelter, refuge’, herebeorgian ‘occupy shelter’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch herberge and German Herberge, also to French auberge ‘inn’; see also harbinger.
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    verb
    1. keep (a thought or feeling, typically a negative one) in one's mind, especially secretly:
    2. shelter or hide (a criminal or wanted person):
      Opposite:
      • (of a ship or its crew) moor in a harbor:
        be at anchor
        cast anchor
       
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    1. The term "harbored" has multiple meanings:123
      1. To give shelter or refuge to someone.
      2. To be the home or habitat of something.
      3. To have in mind a thought or feeling over a long period.
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      harbored; harboring ˈhär-b (ə-)riŋ ; harbors transitive verb 1 a : to give shelter or refuge to harboring a fugitive b : to be the home or habitat of
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      to have in mind a thought or feeling, usually over a long period: He harbored the suspicion that someone in the agency was spying for the enemy.
      dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/harbor
      Definition of harbored past tense of harbor 1 as in had to keep in one's mind or heart he had long harbored a grudge against his old employer, who had high-handedly fired him without cause
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