Definition for O-VER-BEAR'

O-VER-BEAR', v.t. [See Bear.]

To bear down; to repress; to subdue. The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war. – Bacon. Yet fortune, valor, all is overborne / By numbers. – Derham. Till overborne with weight the Cyprians fell. – Dryden.

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