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Overview of verb overbear

The verb overbear has 3 senses


  • overbear -- (overcome; "overbear criticism, protest, or arguments")

  • overbear -- (bear too much)

  • bear down, overbear -- (contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery)


Overview of adj overbearing

The adj overbearing has 2 senses


  • authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearing -- (expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter")

  • disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering -- (having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer)