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

Or doing what may I have might such toil to overbear?'

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

The Government was resolved to be what it considered firm, and it undoubtedly believed that a proper show of firmness would easily overbear any opposition that the colonists might make to the proposed measure.

From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by McCarthy, Justin

Cannot I fashion forth Another world, another universe, To overbear and crumble this to nought?

From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by Robertson, M. (Margaret)