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
Or doing what may I have might such toil to overbear?'
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
He looked soldierly; but the soldier in him did not really very much overbear the demeanour of the quiet, ordinary gentleman.
From The Dictator by Justin McCarthy
Perhaps you may see her, alertly skulking among the underbrush, still uttering that tender, persuasive cry, so faint that the chirp of a cricket might overbear it.
From In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
It is both lonely and silent, with the players on their own as they compete, unless they have an overbearing coach yelling at them from the sidelines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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
Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the world and put society on the fast track for self-destruction, the metaphor initially feels overbearing, another indication that Spielberg is laying it on too thick.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
I liked him immensely, his sullenness, his corpselike color, except when he was lodged in a good mood, when he became overbearing and megalomaniacal.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
The bitterness which filled his heart against Simon Halpen overbore any other emotion.
From With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga by W. Bertram Foster
But his eagerness overbore everything; and took Titmouse quite by storm.
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren
His rulings swayed the Court, in which he acted the part of prosecutor of the Prisoners, and overbore the Jury.
From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Charles Wentworth Upham
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 Mary Noailles Murfree
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 Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
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
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
But Rains was all but overborne by the wooden acting of Hollywood Starlet Marisa Pavan.
From Time Magazine Archive
The new First Lord of the Treasury may have resisted having Legge as his Chancellor of the Exchequer, but was easily overborne.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
