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overbore

[oh-ver-bawr, -bohr]

verb

  1. simple past tense of overbear.



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Assistant Attorney General Sunita Doddamani said there is no evidence that the informant’s actions “overbore” the defendants’ will “to be law-abiding citizens.”

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In combat he was terrifying, fighting entirely to kill, indifferent to any wounds he received himself and closing with his adversaries until his weight overbore and exhausted them.

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His sense of public duty, however, overbore all personal considerations, and he set sail on the 16th of March, 1775, and died off Gloucester, Massachusetts, on the 26th of April.

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It was Forester who overbore with ridicule my suggestion that he should be fed at regular hours, for which I never forgave him.

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He had thundered against the King and the King's trusted Ministers, the Walpoles and the Carterets, with a voice that overbore all others, and which apparently could not be silenced.

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