to overbear

Examples

• All

• Egeus, I will overbear your will; for in the temple by and by with US these couples shall eternally be knit.

  Return with Honor (1999)

• Yet, while sometimes cloying, the nostalgia never overbears.

  Academic text (2002)

• Take us out or they'll overbear us!

  Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

• I'll undertake to overbear them if they get stuffy.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Not by lashes or electric shock, of course—that would overbear her will in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

  Academic text (2001)

• The colonists strained to tame the wild, the tribes, and the environment; now, high technologies overbear postcolonial promises and transvaluations; the tragic mode is in ruin.

  Academic text (1990)

• The manager decided to overbear the team's objections about the new policy.

• During the debate, the stronger candidate tried to overbear his opponent's arguments.

• Her passion for the project allowed her to overbear any doubts from her peers.

Synonyms

O

to override

vsto overbear

96 6.7

To cancel a rule or decision because something else is more important

suppresses opposition more generally rather than just cancelling rules

O

to overrule

vsto overbear

• Formal

89 5.7

To reject a decision or objection because someone else has more power

uses force, authority, or influence to silence objections

O

to overpower

vsto overbear

33 3.8

To use more strength to defeat and control a person or thing

uses authority or influence as well as force to subdue objections

R

to repress

vsto overbear

19 6.7

Use force to stop protests or opposition

targets objections broadly, not only public unrest or rebellion

O

to overawe

vsto overbear

• Formal

1 8.2

To make someone feel small or afraid by showing great power

relies on power or authority to suppress objections rather than emotion

Antonyms

S

to submit

187 4.1

To accept another person's control, often against your wishes

Y

to yield

81 4.3

To stop resisting under pressure or force

How Dominating

to crush

386 4.7

to overwhelm

42 4.0

to overbear

1 8.4

to override

96 6.7

to dismiss

332 3.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology