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)
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