Crossword clues for overbear
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overbear \O`ver*bear"\, v. t.
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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. ) To domineer over; to overcome by insolence.
Overbear \O`ver*bear"\, v. i. To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context obsolete transitive English) To carry over. (10th-14th c.) 2 (context transitive English) To push through by physical weight or strength; to overwhelm, overcome. (from 16th c.) 3 (context transitive English) To prevail over; to dominate, overpower; to oppress. (from 16th c.) 4 (context intransitive English) To produce an overabundance of fruit. (from 18th c.)
WordNet
Usage examples of "overbear".
Necker himself, and, when he could neither convince nor overbear him, had tried, though unsuccessfully, to enlist the queen against him.
Assembly was greatly alarmed, believing, not without reason, that the object of the intended attack was to overawe and overbear them.
Moderate or Constitutional section of the Assembly--men who had no grounds for complaining that, except in one or two instances, at moments of extraordinary excitement, their influence had been overborne, but who now yielded to an infectious panic.
Now twenty years old, Clementine looked like her mother, but where Augusta was overbearing, Clementine was sly.
He was a naturally aggressive and overbearing man but Kaft had the knack of making him feel adolescent and unruly.
Still, neither of the other two were the least condescending or overbearing about it.
No matter how arrogant or overbearing his demand was that she marry, then divorce him, she would never stop loving him.
I felt nothing, only an overbearing sorrow and bewilderment I could not analyze or explain to myself.
Season with your overbearing brothers fighting to be your escort, Sera.
Whether I am safely wed to a stuffy old prude of a husband or chained to an equally overbearing prig of a brother.
Chillingworth and Dumond probably thought they could push your overbearing brothers-in-law to challenge you by propagating those ruinous lies.
A man of his size should have been awkward or overbearing when he wrapped his arms around a woman.
That young lady had an overbearing father, and this young man wanted to wed his true love before he joined the army.
And it was bringing them nearer, moment by moment, to the majestic and overbearing ship that held dominion over this section of the river.
My father--our government--were painted as overbearing and belligerent.