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Word History and Origins
Origin of overborne1
First recorded in 1605–15
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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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