What is "overborne"

Usage examples of "overborne".

He was trembling, he realized, barely able to restrain himself, and overborne by her proximity, he lowered his eyes.

The children were dead already, and whatever compassion he had felt for them had been overborne by his loathing for de Czege.

She buried her face in her hands as if overborne by her lust for death.

Beheim, overborne by a weariness less physical than spiritual, shared their longing for surcease.

However, he was overborne by the unanimous feeling of the senate and became quiet.

The consular authority was on the point of being overborne by the interference of the tribunes when a fresh alarm was created.

After completing this nasty chore, I stood and discovered Anne staring at me wetly, her maidenly nature overborne by my unexpected sensitivity.

For an instant I had an unpleasant vision of myself, a teenage monster gloating over his two gifted white mice, but this was overborne by my delight in the puzzle they presented.

But as he slew the last the parent monster returned and, seeing what had chanced with her fledglings, she screamed aloud her rage and struck down at Huon so that her beak cut deeply into his shoulder and he was like to be overborne and killed by the savageness of her attack.

For if a will should simply exist, but not be able to do what it wills, it would be overborne by a more powerful will.