Definition of Overbear

1. Verb. Overcome. "Overbear criticism, protest, or arguments"

Generic synonyms: Dominate

2. Verb. Bear too much.
Generic synonyms: Bear, Turn Out

3. Verb. Contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery.
Exact synonyms: Bear Down
Generic synonyms: Compact, Compress, Constrict, Contract, Press, Squeeze

Definition of Overbear

1. v. t. To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress.

2. v. i. To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.

Definition of Overbear

1. Verb. (intransitive) To crush or press down on with physical force. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To prevail over, as if by superior weight or force; dominate. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To be more important than; outweigh. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To bear an overabundance of fruit or offspring. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overbear

1. to bring down by superior weight or force [v -BORE, -BORNE or -BORN, -BEARING, -BEARS]

Medical Definition of Overbear

1. To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overbear

overbake
overbaked
overbakes
overbaking
overbalance
overbalanced
overbalances
overbalancing
overbank
overbank flooding
overbanked
overbar
overbarren
overbars
overbattle
overbear (current term)
overbearance
overbearing
overbearingly
overbearingness
overbears
overbeat
overbeaten
overbeating
overbeats
overbed
overbejeweled
overbend
overbending
overbends

Literary usage of Overbear

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order ; with Copious by George Crabb (1883)
"To overbear is to bear one's self over another, that is, to make another bear one's weight ; to BEAR DOWN is literally to bring down bv bearing up™ : to ..."

2. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"To overbear is to bear one's self over another, that is, to make another bear one's weight ; to BEAR DOWN is literally to bringdown by bearing upon ..."

3. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres by Hugh Blair (1817)
"There may, indeed, be something so terrible or offensive, that the horror, or loathsomeness of an object, may overbear the pleasure which results from its ..."

4. Sidelights on American Literature by Fred Lewis Pattee (1922)
"... and love on every side, in bush and vine and tree and nest, which seemed to overbear me and sweep me along on the crest of some green tide of spring. ..."

5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1868)
"GOVERNOR too much inclined to overbear, and thus WOOD.—This variety has lessen the size of the fruit, unless the tree probably had a more general and ..."

6. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1921)
"... and overbear the rights of the citizen and the law of the land. He took advantage of the hardship of Briton's case, and drew a lively and pathetic ..."

7. The family expositor: or, A paraphrase and version of the New Testament, [ed by Philip Doddridge (1745)
"... arm their Authority to overbear Argument, they will probably, in the Judgment of impartial Men, ..."

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