overbear
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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
But if the tree is in proper vigor, is well fed, protected from noxious organisms, not allowed to overbear, it should have sufficient energy to make a crop every year, frosts and accidents excepted.
From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
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)
He was angry, but he would never more attempt to overbear me with grand threats.
From The O'Ruddy A Romance by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)
Don’t bring up any overbearing behavior like, “You message me too much,” as they will probably get defensive.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
It said the installation harmed a neighbouring property because of its "overbearing scale, oppressive sense of enclosure and stark industrial appearance".
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Even advocates of adding an arch in Washington have criticized the size of Trump’s proposed structure as overbearing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
In most of these, we can see the mother-son dynamic, however frustrating or overbearing or dysfunctional, play out.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
She wanted to explain how right everything felt in a place where she was surrounded by mischievous children, overbearing cousins, and doddering elders who were all a part of her.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
The bitterness which filled his heart against Simon Halpen overbore any other emotion.
From With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga by Foster, W. Bertram
But his eagerness overbore everything; and took Titmouse quite by storm.
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Warren, Samuel
In every land I thought that, more or less, The stronger, sterner nature overbore The softer, uncontroll'd by gentleness, And selfish evermore!
From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
It rose and fell, faint and afar; the flutter of a moth’s wings against the greyish willow leaves overbore and silenced it.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard
"Sewell, what are you drinking?" cried Cave, with a loudness that overbore the talk around him.
From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Lever, Charles James
Watts was "obsessed" with Sansom, but it was not a case of "one person's will being overborne by another", the judge added.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2025
But Rains was all but overborne by the wooden acting of Hollywood Starlet Marisa Pavan.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were not overborne by the implications of Communist military power.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Red Hat sect, which allows its lamas to marry, was gradually overborne by the celibate Yellow Hat sect.
From Time Magazine Archive
We thus experience in ourselves a strange conflict between moral responsibility and molecular affinities;—the central will overborne by dumb unnumbered elements of our being.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
