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Overbear
Overbear O`ver*bear", v. i.
To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.
Overbear
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.
Meaning of Overbear from wikipedia
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