A small question

[smokingboot]

Lat night I dreamed I was reading L.M.Montgomery's novel of an imaginative redhead, Anne of Green Gables. In it, the spirit of the author(?) or someone like that wanted to give me a word, some kind of verb or synonym. Under the typeset words of a gap between paragraphs, I wrote in careful letters of my own,uncharacteristically legible and childlike;
'[insert word I can't recall] = imitate.'
Under this I also wrote, '[same word] = bear' I thought that this wasn't the animal Ursus but the concept of bearing fruit or burdens.

But the word itself I can't recall. Can anyone think of a word that means both bear and imitate?

Dreams like this drive me nuts.

Comments

[croak108.livejournal.com]

Knoweyng what dreams are like, it c0uld be responsibilityh. And `Imitate, bear (14)` c0uld easyh:ly be a clue in an Evening Standard coffee-time CW puzzle.