Definition of "overborne" []

• Past participle of overbear. (verb)
• Overpowered or overcome: hikers overborne by fatigue. (adjective)

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• "He was overborne, swept back against the ropes, separated by the referee, and swept back against the ropes again."
• "Captain Glass met the first man springing up the companionway from the cabin, with a kick full in the face, but was overborne and trampled on by the rush."
• "Indeed, she had only roused herself from her apathy at the threat of losing the Worm, when she had (in the words of Shurland) kicked up such a dust that he had overborne his wife and allowed the duenna to remain."