OVERBORE

OVERBEAR

overbear

(verb) bear too much

overbear

(verb) overcome; “overbear criticism, protest, or arguments”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Adjective

overbore (not comparable)

(firearms) Such that the capacity of the burning cartridge powder is greater than the volume within the barrel.

Verb

overbore (third-person singular simple present overbores, present participle overboring, simple past and past participle overbored)

(firearms, transitive) To modify so that the capacity of the burning cartridge powder is greater than the volume within the barrel.

Etymology 2

Verb

overbore

simple past tense and past participle of overbear

Anagrams

• overrobe

Source: Wiktionary


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. 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 his own country to meet them. Jowett (Thucyd. )

2. To domineer over; to overcome by insolence.

O`ver*bear", v. i.

Definition: To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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8 November 2024

REPLACEMENT

(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”


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