overborne
overborne is the simple past and past participle of overbear.
Meaning of overbear
Verb
overbear (third-person singular simple present overbears, present participle overbearing, simple past overbore, past participle overborne)
- To carry over.
- 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
- 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
- To produce an overabundance of fruit.
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- Overborne is the simple past and past participle of overbear.
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