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Overbear

//əʊvəˈbɛː// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To carry over. obsolete, transitive
  2. 2
    contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery wordnet
  3. 3
    To push through by physical weight or strength; to overwhelm, overcome. transitive

    "I attacked first and they were overborne, / Glad to apologize and even suing / Pardon for what they'd never thought of doing."

  4. 4
    bear too much wordnet
  5. 5
    To prevail over; to dominate, overpower; to oppress. transitive

    "It often fals, in course of common life, / That right long time is overborne of wrong […]."

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  1. 6
    overcome wordnet
  2. 7
    To produce an overabundance of fruit. intransitive

Etymology

From Middle English overberen; equivalent to over- + bear.

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