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 • Jan. 30, 2025
Charles Cherry is the over-bearing husband who is finally overborne.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is involuntary, and inadmissible, if the suspect's will to silence was "overborne" by any pressure�mental as well as physical.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were not overborne by the implications of Communist military power.
From Time Magazine Archive
The plants and grasses that possessed the soil were obviously weeds, and the degraded survivals of a gentler growth lurked among them overborne and half strangled.
From Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel by Veley, Margaret
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