MEANING
To overpower or dominate through superior force, pressure, or authority.
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Words that belong together
- overbear resistance
- overbear an objection
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His authority overbore the witnesses’ objections.
The pressure overbore her resistance without changing her belief.
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Word forms
- Base
- overbear
- Past tense
- overbore
- Past participle
- overborne
- Present participle
- overbearing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- overbear
- Present continuous
- am/is/are overbearing
- Present perfect
- have/has overborne
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been overbearing
- Past
- overbore
- Past continuous
- was/were overbearing
- Past perfect
- had overborne
- Past perfect continuous
- had been overbearing
- Future
- will overbear
- Future continuous
- will be overbearing
- Future perfect
- will have overborne
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been overbearing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: overbear; overbears; overbore; overborne; overbearing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: overbears.
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