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Webster 1913 Edition
Overbear
Oˊver-bear′
,Verb.
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.
Oˊver-bear′
,Verb.
I.
To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.
Webster 1828 Edition
Overbear
OVERBEAR
,Verb.
T.
The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war.
Yet fortune, valor, all is overborne by numbers.
Till overborne with weight the Cyprians fell.