over·bear /ˌovɚ/
(vt.)威壓,壓服,壓抑(vi.)結實過多
O·ver·bear, v. i. To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.
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O·ver·bear v. t.
1. To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress.
The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war. --Bacon.
Overborne with weight the Cyprians fell. --Dryden.
They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who goes out of his own country to meet them. --Jowett (Thucyd. )
2. To domineer over; to overcome by insolence.
overbear
v 1: overcome; "overbear criticism, protest, or arguments"
2: bear too much
3: contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease
delivery [syn: bear down]
[also: overborne, overbore]