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

Rotation of crops is an excellent plan; for one may flourish on that which another has rejected; but this does not overbear Nature's inflexible exaction of so much for so much.

From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Greeley, Horace

The tree is hardy, a rapid grower, comes into bearing early, and is, if anything, inclined to overbear.

From Fruits of Queensland by Benson, Albert H.

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 McCarthy, Justin