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
But Rains was all but overborne by the wooden acting of Hollywood Starlet Marisa Pavan.
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
Charles Cherry is the over-bearing husband who is finally overborne.
From Time Magazine Archive
We thus experience in ourselves a strange conflict between moral responsibility and molecular affinities;—the central will overborne by dumb unnumbered elements of our being.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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