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

“Then you did overbear us,” said the ruffian Cobb; “it won’t do to trust him.”

From My First Voyage to Southern Seas by Pearse, Alfred

Refer him to me; say the point is too difficult for you; that while your feelings for your niece might overbear all other considerations, those very feelings might be the sources of error to you.

From A Rent In A Cloud by Lever, Charles James

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)