OVERBEAR, verb transitive [See Bear.] To bear down; to repress; to subdue. The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war. Yet fortune, valor, all is overborne by numbers. Till overborne with weight the Cyprians fell.
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