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
What we have to consider is, whether there are present, in any proposed euthanasia, such conditions as overbear considerations for the acknowledged sanctity of life.
From My Path to Atheism by Besant, Annie Wood
The tree is hardy, a rapid grower, comes into bearing early, and is, if anything, inclined to overbear.
From Fruits of Queensland by Benson, Albert H.
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)
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
Some of the people who get in trouble with the law have incredibly controlling mothers, she said, leading her to a theory that wildly overbearing parenting could even play a role in delinquent behavior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
I imagine he’s one of those overbearing parents who makes you ask to be excused, and only after you’ve finished all your peas and carrots.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
He overbore her, because in such a matter she could not command him.
From The Sea Bride by Williams, Ben Ames
After that the worst continued to happen, and at a pace that overbore all resistance.
From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin
"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
Nevertheless, in the halting words of the woman who had suffered, if only from misapprehension upon so grave a point, there was a rude eloquence that overbore the lady's incredulity.
From The Convert by Robins, Elizabeth
He felt no more the physical pain of his bruises; the anguish of his mind stifled and overbore all corporeal suffering—an anguish as great as the childish breast is capable of holding.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
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
The Red Hat sect, which allows its lamas to marry, was gradually overborne by the celibate Yellow Hat sect.
From Time Magazine Archive
Charles Cherry is the over-bearing husband who is finally overborne.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is in scenes like these, showing passion restrained or overborne for the moment, or the strain and suspense preceding the crash, that Ford is at his best.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
