Hypertext Webster Gateway: "overbear"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Overbear \O`ver*bear"\, v. i.
To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
overbear
v 1: overcome; "overbear criticism, protest, or arguments"
2: bear too much
3: contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease
delivery [syn: {bear down}]
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