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

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)

If pruned the same, the grafted vines may overbear and quickly exhaust themselves.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.

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