The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overbend
Overbend \O`ver*bend"\, v. i. To bend over. [R.]
Overbend
Overbend \O`ver*bend"\, v. t. To bend to excess.
Wiktionary
overbend
vb. 1 To bend over. 2 To bend to excess; to bend too far.
Usage examples of "overbend".
XIV Thus speaking, the trooped apparitions Began to disband And resolve them in two: Those whose record was lovely and true Bore to northward for home: those of bitter traditions Again left the land, XV And, towering to seaward in legions, They paused at a spot Overbending the Race - That engulphing, ghast, sinister place - Whither headlong they plunged, to the fathomless regions Of myriads forgot.
The AT was a plumped blanket of snow, round and bluish, in a long, dim tunnel of overbent rhododendrons.