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

It was not a mere effort to overbear their sorrow—an outward semblance of reconciliation to their hard fate—but it was a deep fountain of real gladness, welling up from their riven spirits.

From Memories of Bethany by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)

The tendency of Elvira to crack and overbear influenced the originator of that variety, Jacob Rommel, Morrison, Missouri, to try for a grape without these faults, and the result was Etta from seed of Elvira.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.

Calm, cool, firm self-possession seemed to overbear all other feelings.

From Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)