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

Whatever the reasons for having deserted him he was determined to overbear.

From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Lever, Charles James

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 Macduff, John R. (John Ross)

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