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

Further, by closing the passes over the Alps he can derange the commerce of Europe; and the sturdy mountaineers will either overbear the plain-dwellers, or will serve as mercenaries in their forces.

From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland

The novice, however, is likely to permit his vines to overbear with the result that the crop is cast, or the berries rattle, or the fruit turns sour before ripening.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.

The forbidding faces are Fates to overbear and blemish true fellowship.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks