overbear
Example Sentences
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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
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Or doing what may I have might such toil to overbear?'
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William
He was, above all things, a singularly just man, who recognised every one’s rights, and did not seek to overbear them by an exercise of authority.
From Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount
The forbidding faces are Fates to overbear and blemish true fellowship.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks