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overbears

overbears is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overbear.

Meaning of overbear

Verb

overbear (third-person singular simple present overbears, present participle overbearing, simple past overbore, past participle overborne)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To carry over.
  2. (transitive) To push through by physical weight or strength; to overwhelm, overcome.
    • I attacked first and they were overborne, / Glad to apologize and even suing / Pardon for what they'd never thought of doing.1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 287
  3. (transitive) To prevail over; to dominate, overpower; to oppress.
    • It often fals, in course of common life, / That right long time is overborne of wrong […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  4. (intransitive) To produce an overabundance of fruit.

Questions about overbears

What is overbears the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overbears is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overbear.

Words near overbears in the dictionary

  1. overbearer
  2. overbearers
  3. overbearing
  4. overbearingly
  5. overbearingness
  6. overbears
  7. overbeat
  8. overbeaten
  9. overbeating
  10. overbeats
  11. overbed

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