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
They are not very large; beautiful in color; have a tendency to overbear and grow in clusters.
From The Apple by Various
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