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."
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"Overborne with weight the Cyprians fell."
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"They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who goes out of his own country to meet them."
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