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

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)

The forbidding faces are Fates to overbear and blemish true fellowship.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

If pruned the same, the grafted vines may overbear and quickly exhaust themselves.

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