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
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
Yet, do not let your anger overbear discretion.
From The Advocate by Heavysege, Charles
