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  3  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [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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