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
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
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)
The tendency of Elvira to crack and overbear influenced the originator of that variety, Jacob Rommel, Morrison, Missouri, to try for a grape without these faults, and the result was Etta from seed of Elvira.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
News coverage and dinner-party conversation often focus on the micromanaging or overbearing boss.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 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
Some of the people who get in trouble with the law have incredibly controlling mothers, she said, leading her to a theory that wildly overbearing parenting could even play a role in delinquent behavior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
In days gone by, these men held Hypereia, a country of wide dancing grounds, but near them were overbearing Kyklopes, whose power could not be turned from pillage.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
His rulings swayed the Court, in which he acted the part of prosecutor of the Prisoners, and overbore the Jury.
From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Upham, Charles Wentworth
She stood for a trifle, hesitant, peering into the hallway now dark with evening shadow; then curiosity overbore her reluctance.
From The Bandbox by Vance, Louis Joseph
After that the worst continued to happen, and at a pace that overbore all resistance.
From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin
He overbore her, because in such a matter she could not command him.
From The Sea Bride by Williams, Ben Ames
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 Titus, Harold
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
They were not overborne by the implications of Communist military power.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Rains was all but overborne by the wooden acting of Hollywood Starlet Marisa Pavan.
From Time Magazine Archive
The evidential value of what has been written about the apostles will, to some minds, seem to be overborne by the difficulties which start up at the name of Judas.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.
