overborne
Americanadjective
verb
Etymology
Origin of overborne
First recorded in 1605–15
Example Sentences
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Watts was "obsessed" with Sansom, but it was not a case of "one person's will being overborne by another", the judge added.
From BBC
The question is not, as Mr. Luttig wrote, “whether a reasonable person would conclude that her impartiality would be inescapably overborne by the flood of influences brought to bear on her.”
From Washington Post
“How can it not overborne your will if you think there is even a small chance of saving your child’s life?” he asked Ms. Egan, the lawyer for Rensselaer County.
From New York Times
One by one the few scientific men who still held out were overborne by the weight of evidence.
From Project Gutenberg
Ralph, although overborne by grief, possessed a firmness of mind that sought a remedy for affliction, where a remedy was attainable, instead of tamely yielding.
From Project Gutenberg
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