Overbear
[əʊvə'beə]
Definition
(verb.) bear too much.
(verb.) overcome; 'overbear criticism, protest, or arguments'.
Editor: Tamara--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress.
(v. t.) To domineer over; to overcome by insolence.
(v. i.) To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.
Typed by Freddie
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Overpower, overwhelm, subdue, overthrow, prostrate.
Inputed by Enoch
Definition
v.t. to bear down or overpower: to overwhelm.—adj. Overbear′ing inclined to domineer esp. in manner or conduct: haughty and dogmatical: imperious.—adv. Overbear′ingly.—n. Overbear′ingness.
Typist: Ollie
Examples
- His bullying, overbearing manner was all gone too, and he cringed along at my companion's side like a dog with its master. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I can see it leaking out in fifty different ways,--just the same strong, overbearing, dominant spirit. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- His face was very pleasant; he looked high but not arrogant, manly but not overbearing. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Mr Wrayburn, at least I know very well that it would be idle to set myself against you in insolent words or overbearing manners. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was clever, bad-tempered, and overbearing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was her overbearing WILL that insisted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Edited by Augustus