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OVERBEAR v. 3 definitions
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…
OVERBEARING a. 2 definitions
Overpowering; subduing; repressing. I. Watts.
OVERBEND v. 2 definitions
To bend over. [R.]
OVERBID v.
To bid or offer beyond, or in excess of. Dryden.
OVERBIDE v.
To outlive. [Obs.] Chaucer.
OVERBLOW v. 3 definitions
To blow over, or be subdued. [R.] Spenser.
OVERBOARD adv.
Over the side of a ship; hence, from on board of a ship, into the water; as, to fall overboard. To throw overboard, to discard; to abandon, as a dependent or friend.
OVERBOIL v.
To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.
OVERBOLD a.
Excessively or presumptuously bold; impudent. Shak. -- O"ver*bold"ly, adv.
OVERBOOKISH a.
Excessively bookish.
OVERBOUNTEOUS a.
Bounteous to excess.
OVERBOW v.
To bend or bow over; to bend in a contrary direction. [Obs.] Fuller.
OVERBREED v.
To breed to excess.
OVERBRIM v.
To flow over the brim; to be so full as to overflow. [R.]
OVERBROW v.
To hang over like a brow; to impend over. [Poetic] Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth.
OVERBUILD v. 2 definitions
To build over. Milton.
OVERBUILT a.
Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town.
OVERBULK v.
To oppress by bulk; to overtower. [Obs. & R.] Shak.
OVERBURDEN n. 2 definitions
The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry. Raymond.
OVERBURDENSOME a.
Too burdensome.
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