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

Cannot I fashion forth Another world, another universe, To overbear and crumble this to nought?

From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by Robertson, M. (Margaret)

The Government was resolved to be what it considered firm, and it undoubtedly believed that a proper show of firmness would easily overbear any opposition that the colonists might make to the proposed measure.

From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by McCarthy, Justin

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 Greeley, Horace