Definition of "overbears" [overbears]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbear. (verb)

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• "When all other considerations fail them (as there is a time and season when nothing will relieve us but that which is every way infinite), it overbears and overwhelms them."
• "The reason of this is obviously self-love, which partly overbears the natural operations of this principle."
• "Four overbears them all, strident and strepitant --"