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
Many varieties are prone to overbear, and trees of large size have produced enormous crops of fruit, whereas young trees frequently break down under the weight of their crop.
From Fruits of Queensland by Albert H. Benson
It was not a mere effort to overbear their sorrow—an outward semblance of reconciliation to their hard fate—but it was a deep fountain of real gladness, welling up from their riven spirits.
From Memories of Bethany by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
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
"The current system is not fit for purpose. It is an overbearing mess and urgently needs to be reviewed," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Jumping between past and present, the film tells the story of Alex Serian, a cellist who moves to Los Angeles to care for his dying mother and escape an overbearing ex played by Olivia Wilde.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
They might politely ask trespassers if they are lost, although locals all seem to have stories about overbearing keyholders who kicked people off the beach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
News coverage and dinner-party conversation often focus on the micromanaging or overbearing boss.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
The colonel was more than a head taller than the chaplain and over twice as broad, and his swollen, overbearing authority made the chaplain feel frail and sickly by contrast.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
After that the worst continued to happen, and at a pace that overbore all resistance.
From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross
It was Forester who overbore with ridicule my suggestion that he should be fed at regular hours, for which I never forgave him.
From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin
It created anew a solidarity of interest between them all, which was felt by all with an intensity which overbore every other sentiment.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam
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
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
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
The Red Hat sect, which allows its lamas to marry, was gradually overborne by the celibate Yellow Hat sect.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were not overborne by the implications of Communist military power.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each virtue stands mature in unrestrained virility, no one of them overbearing the other three, nor being overborne.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
