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Effort to overcome in contest; struggle; endeavor. [R.] Farindon.

Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked.

To surpass in daring; to overcome by courage; to brave. Shak. R. Browning.

To excel or overcome in staring; to face down. I would outstare the sternest eyes that look. Shak.

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…

To grow beyond; to rise above; hence, to overcome; to oppress. [Obs.] Mortimer. "O'ergrown with labor." Beau. & Fl. [Usually in the past participle.]

To overcome by importunity. Johnson.

To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome. If a man be overtaken in a fault. Gal. vi. 1 I shall see The winged vengeance overtake such children. Shak.

To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome. [Obs.] Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca. Sir T. Browne.

To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or against. When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. Ex. xvii. 11. So David prevailed over the Philistine. 1 Sam. xvii…

To drive away; to overcome.

To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; -- with down; as, to reason down a passion.

To overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body. I do hope to recover my late hurt. Cowley. When I had recovered a little my first surprise. De Foe.

To overcome; to refute, as error. [Obs.] Foxe.

s; hindrance; obstruction, an impediment; especially, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch. Every rub is smoothed on our way. Shak. To sleep, perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub. Shak. Upon this rub, the English ambassadors thought fit to demur. Hayward. One knows not, certainly, what other rubs mi…

fense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to surrender her chastity.

Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep. Shak. She waked her sleepy crew. Dryden.

To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing. And stunned him with the music of the spheres. Pope.

To destroy the force of; to overcome; as, medicines subdue a fever.

Overcome by, or affected with, sunstroke; as, sun-struck soldiers.