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
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
When man is unprejudiced, and his passions subject to reason, it is well he should define the limits of power, so that the waves driven by the storm of passion shall not overbear the shore.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green
Nordheim, however, who was attracted by the boldness of the scheme, contrived to overbear all opposition and to have his own way.
From The Alpine Fay A Romance by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
