overborne

[ oh-ver-bawrn, -bohrn ]

adjective

1. overcome; crushed; oppressed.

verb

1. past participle of overbear.

Word History and Origins

Origin of overborne¹

First recorded in 1605–15

Example Sentences

Overborne by their counsels, after lying in front of the position for three days he withdrew to Ciudad Rodrigo.

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Not long was the combat, for Calf was overborne by odds and fled with his folk.

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The captain killed several of the Indians with his knife, and was the last to fall, overborne in the end by numbers.

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One instant I saw the banker toss his arms like a semaphore; the next we were overborne.

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But these were soon overborne and silenced by a greater number, who now again called upon Probus to fill that office.

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