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overbear
verb as in browbeat
verb as in bully
verb as in command
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verb as in dominate
Strong matches
verb as in domineer
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verb as in plume
verb as in preponderate
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Example Sentences
New Zealand's commerce minister Andrew Bayly has resigned as a government minister after he "placed a hand" on a staff member's upper arm last week, in what he described as "overbearing" behaviour.
The show sees Lucy Punch reprise her role as Amanda, the overbearing and competitive mother who was a viewer favourite in the original series.
Watts was "obsessed" with Sansom, but it was not a case of "one person's will being overborne by another", the judge added.
His father, Dave, was a salesman who never recovered from the Great Depression; the breadwinner was his mother, Rhoda, a fashion sketch artist whose overbearing nature left track marks on his psyche.
Henry is overprotective while Mary is overbearing and suffering from artist’s block.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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