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
It is apt to overbear, break in pieces, and become almost worthless.
From The Apple by Various
He looked soldierly; but the soldier in him did not really very much overbear the demeanour of the quiet, ordinary gentleman.
From The Dictator by Justin McCarthy
If pruned the same, the grafted vines may overbear and quickly exhaust themselves.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
François-Pierre Couture’s scenic design is mesmerizing without ever being overbearing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Don’t bring up any overbearing behavior like, “You message me too much,” as they will probably get defensive.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 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
Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the world and put society on the fast track for self-destruction, the metaphor initially feels overbearing, another indication that Spielberg is laying it on too thick.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
Everyone who met him noticed his thick football neck and his great huge head and his overbearing manner, which was interpreted as both admirably direct and a mask.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
He sighed deeply and shook himself and tried to rally, but though a part of him insisted that he gather his faculties and force them to alertness, another tired, lethargic self overbore the warning.
From I Conquered by Harold Titus
This sensitive feeling, preying upon one naturally susceptible, certainly tended little to his recovery, and even at times so overbore every other sentiment, that he regretted he had ever come abroad.
From A Rent In A Cloud by Charles James Lever
So convinced was Colonel Antony of the righteousness of Sher Singh's cause that for once he overbore the opposition of his Durbar.
From The Path to Honour by Sydney C. Grier
However, I overbore his objections by appealing to my lameness; from which I assured the natives I should speedily recover, if Toby were permitted to obtain the supplies I needed.
From Typee by Herman Melville
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 Ridgwell Cullum
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
But Rains was all but overborne by the wooden acting of Hollywood Starlet Marisa Pavan.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were not overborne by the implications of Communist military power.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just for a moment his conceit had been a little overborne by the presence of the Prince.
From The Men Who Wrought by Ridgwell Cullum
