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 novice, however, is likely to permit his vines to overbear with the result that the crop is cast, or the berries rattle, or the fruit turns sour before ripening.

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)

Or doing what may I have might such toil to overbear?'

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William