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
Calm, cool, firm self-possession seemed to overbear all other feelings.
From Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Rotation of crops is an excellent plan; for one may flourish on that which another has rejected; but this does not overbear Nature's inflexible exaction of so much for so much.
From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Horace Greeley
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
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
As talented figure skater Gennifer Harwood, Panettiere faithfully portrayed the evolution of friendships — especially for young women — in highly competitive sports and the tension between young athletes and their well-intended, but overbearing parents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
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
I imagine he’s one of those overbearing parents who makes you ask to be excused, and only after you’ve finished all your peas and carrots.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Garnett protested feebly, but the old man overbore him triumphantly.
From Grey Town An Australian Story by Gerald Baldwin
It was in defense of his ideas of justice that he overbore opposition.
From Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Pleasant A. Stovall
He sparkled with irresistible enthusiasm, he overbore opposition.
From Stepsons of Light by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
It rose and fell, faint and afar; the flutter of a moth’s wings against the greyish willow leaves overbore and silenced it.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies
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
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
Charles Cherry is the over-bearing husband who is finally overborne.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Rains was all but overborne by the wooden acting of Hollywood Starlet Marisa Pavan.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was overborne, and I regret to say I stopped and listened.
From Strange Stories by Grant Allen
