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

But if the tree is in proper vigor, is well fed, protected from noxious organisms, not allowed to overbear, it should have sufficient energy to make a crop every year, frosts and accidents excepted.

From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

He was the finest-tempered, most generous creature in the world, where no attempt to overbear interfered; but any show of offensive superiority would make a tiger of him.

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James

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 Hedrick, U. P.