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overbear |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Overbear \O`ver*bear"\, v. i. To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Overbear \O`ver*bear"\, v. t. 1. To bear down or carry down as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress. The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war. --Bacon. Overborne with weight the Cyprians fell. --Dryden. They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who goes out of his own country to meet them --Jowett (Thucyd. ) 2. To domineer over to overcome by insolence. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: overbear v 1: overcome; "overbear criticism, protest, or arguments" 2: bear too much 3: contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery [syn: {bear down}]
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