Definition of Overbiar
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.
O`ver*bear", v. i. To bear fruit
or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (intransitive) To crush or press down on with physical force.
- (intransitive) To prevail over, as if by superior weight or force; dominate.
- (intransitive) To be more important than; outweigh.
- (intransitive) To bear an overabundance of fruit or offspring.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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