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overbear
(encz) | overbear,přemoci n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
overbear
(encz) | overbear,zdolat v: Zdeněk Brož |
Overbear
(gcide) | Overbear \O`ver*bear"\, v. t.
1. To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power,
force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress.
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The point of reputation, when the news first came of
the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war.
--Bacon.
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Overborne with weight the Cyprians fell. --Dryden.
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They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who
goes out of his own country to meet them. --Jowett
(Thucyd. )
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2. To domineer over; to overcome by insolence.
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Overbear
(gcide) | Overbear \O`ver*bear"\, v. i.
To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.
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overbear
(wn) | 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, overbear] |
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overbearing
(mass) | overbearing
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overbearing
(encz) | overbearing,arogantní overbearing,drzý overbearing,nejdůležitější overbearing,nejhlavnější overbearing,neomalený overbearing,osobitý overbearing,panovačný overbearing,převažující overbearing,zpupný |
overbearingly
(encz) | overbearingly, |
overbearingness
(encz) | overbearingness, n: |
Overbear
(gcide) | Overbear \O`ver*bear"\, v. t.
1. To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power,
force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress.
[1913 Webster]
The point of reputation, when the news first came of
the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war.
--Bacon.
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Overborne with weight the Cyprians fell. --Dryden.
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They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who
goes out of his own country to meet them. --Jowett
(Thucyd. )
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2. To domineer over; to overcome by insolence.
[1913 Webster]Overbear \O`ver*bear"\, v. i.
To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.
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Overbearing
(gcide) | Overbearing \O`ver*bear"ing\, a.
1. Overpowering; subduing; repressing. --I. Watts.
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2. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical;
dictatorial; insolent.
[1913 Webster] --O`ver*bear"ing*ly, adv. --
O`ver*bear"ing*ness, n.
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Overbearingly
(gcide) | Overbearing \O`ver*bear"ing\, a.
1. Overpowering; subduing; repressing. --I. Watts.
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2. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical;
dictatorial; insolent.
[1913 Webster] --O`ver*bear"ing*ly, adv. --
O`ver*bear"ing*ness, n.
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Overbearingness
(gcide) | Overbearing \O`ver*bear"ing\, a.
1. Overpowering; subduing; repressing. --I. Watts.
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2. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical;
dictatorial; insolent.
[1913 Webster] --O`ver*bear"ing*ly, adv. --
O`ver*bear"ing*ness, n.
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overbearing
(wn) | overbearing
adj 1: expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of
authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing
behavior toward the waiter" [syn: authoritarian,
dictatorial, overbearing]
2: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of
those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful
of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty
aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked
with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of
etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious
air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn:
disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly,
overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious,
swaggering] |
overbearingly
(wn) | overbearingly
adv 1: in an overbearing manner |
overbearingness
(wn) | overbearingness
n 1: the trait of being imperious and overbearing [syn:
imperiousness, domineeringness, overbearingness] |
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