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
The novice, however, is likely to permit his vines to overbear with the result that the crop is cast, or the berries rattle, or the fruit turns sour before ripening.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
“Then you did overbear us,” said the ruffian Cobb; “it won’t do to trust him.”
From My First Voyage to Southern Seas by Alfred Pearse
If pruned the same, the grafted vines may overbear and quickly exhaust themselves.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
Oftentimes these seemingly overbearing monitoring has nothing to do with how much someone trusts us.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Wagner, the founder of computer-education company 1010 Technologies, says his original design was a joke—more of a commentary on overbearing managers than a cover for lazy employees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
If Reilly was at times overbearing — and known for being the kind of hellacious boss who gave employees night sweats — he was also generous and a genuine bleeding heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 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
Back in Tehran, my mom was only nineteen and had spent the last year begging her overbearing father to send her to university in London.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
While things went well the life policy of joyous carelessness overbore the pessimism, but when things began to go ill the conviction arose that life is not worth living.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
Garnett protested feebly, but the old man overbore him triumphantly.
From Grey Town An Australian Story by Gerald Baldwin
It was his love that urged him on, his love that overbore his scruples, his gravest apprehensions.
From The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana by Ridgwell Cullum
He was prominent in public life and overbore all opposition.
From Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Pleasant A. Stovall
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 Charles Wentworth Upham
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
But Rains was all but overborne by the wooden acting of Hollywood Starlet Marisa Pavan.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Then she pulled herself together with determination to be neither browbeaten nor overborne.
From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance
