overbear
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I know that it is easy to overbear a person’s mind if you continuously barrage them with questions and accuse them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2011
But just because Karl Malden won't be brought to overbear on this doesn't mean Amex considers it unimportant.
From Time Magazine Archive
If pruned the same, the grafted vines may overbear and quickly exhaust themselves.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
Most all bear heavily, in fact usually overbear.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association
He was angry, but he would never more attempt to overbear me with grand threats.
From The O'Ruddy A Romance by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)
News coverage and dinner-party conversation often focus on the micromanaging or overbearing boss.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
It said the installation harmed a neighbouring property because of its "overbearing scale, oppressive sense of enclosure and stark industrial appearance".
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
In most of these, we can see the mother-son dynamic, however frustrating or overbearing or dysfunctional, play out.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
Some members of communities where they most often hover have come to consider them an unwelcome intrusion and a reminder of the LAPD’s overbearing presence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
Everything about her tells me she's running away from something more than overbearing parents.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
His rulings swayed the Court, in which he acted the part of prosecutor of the Prisoners, and overbore the Jury.
From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Upham, Charles Wentworth
His sense of public duty, however, overbore all personal considerations, and he set sail on the 16th of March, 1775, and died off Gloucester, Massachusetts, on the 26th of April.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
It was his love that urged him on, his love that overbore his scruples, his gravest apprehensions.
From The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana by Cullum, Ridgwell
He felt no more the physical pain of his bruises; the anguish of his mind stifled and overbore all corporeal suffering—an anguish as great as the childish breast is capable of holding.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
Garnett protested feebly, but the old man overbore him triumphantly.
From Grey Town An Australian Story by Baldwin, Gerald
Watts was "obsessed" with Sansom, but it was not a case of "one person's will being overborne by another", the judge added.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2025
Charles Cherry is the over-bearing husband who is finally overborne.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were not overborne by the implications of Communist military power.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Red Hat sect, which allows its lamas to marry, was gradually overborne by the celibate Yellow Hat sect.
From Time Magazine Archive
The evidential value of what has been written about the apostles will, to some minds, seem to be overborne by the difficulties which start up at the name of Judas.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.
