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
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 forbidding faces are Fates to overbear and blemish true fellowship.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
Most all bear heavily, in fact usually overbear.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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
Even advocates of adding an arch in Washington have criticized the size of Trump’s proposed structure as overbearing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
In most of these, we can see the mother-son dynamic, however frustrating or overbearing or dysfunctional, play out.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
Annabeth had had nothing but trouble from that overbearing goddess, and she’d never forgive Hera for taking Percy away, even if it was for a noble cause.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
This sensitive feeling, preying upon one naturally susceptible, certainly tended little to his recovery, and even at times so overbore every other sentiment, that he regretted he had ever come abroad.
From A Rent In A Cloud by Lever, Charles James
He had thundered against the King and the King's trusted Ministers, the Walpoles and the Carterets, with a voice that overbore all others, and which apparently could not be silenced.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose
He knew it was simply unpardonable, according to the rigid decorums of their code of manners, but the impetuosity of his joy overbore him, and he bent down and kissed her lips.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles
My assurance of success was so strong that it overbore every other consideration.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various
There was a bold rough energy, a daring go-ahead spirit, that overbore him wherever he went.
From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James
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
The Red Hat sect, which allows its lamas to marry, was gradually overborne by the celibate Yellow Hat sect.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were not overborne by the implications of Communist military power.
From Time Magazine Archive
Charles Cherry is the over-bearing husband who is finally overborne.
From Time Magazine Archive
Harold departs and regains England, and there, on the king's death, overborne by circumstances, but with much tribulation of mind, violates his oath, and himself takes possession of the throne.
From Views and Reviews by James, Henry
