Word Meanings - OVERBEAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: OVERBEAR

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 2. To domineer over; to overcome by insolence.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OVERBEAR)

• Browbeat
• Intimidate
• bully
• overbear
• cow
• overawe
• boycott
• bulldoze
• Oppress
• Burden
• grind
• weigh down
• persecute
• aggrieve
• maltreat
• abuse
• constrain

Related words: (words related to OVERBEAR)

• GRINDSTONE
  A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
• GRINDLE STONE
  A grindstone.
• GRINDLET
  A small drain.
• BOYCOTTER
  A participant in boycotting.
• BURDENER
  One who loads; a oppressor.
• GRINDINGLY
  In a grinding manner.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• BROWBEATING
  The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, suspercilious manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeating and scorn of great men. L'Estrange.
• WEIGHMASTER
  One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
• OPPRESSION
  1. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. 2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv. 9. 3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind;
• OPPRESSOR
  One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity. The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds. Shak. To relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor. Swift.
• BULLDOZE
  To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana.
• GRINDERY
  Leather workers' materials. Grindery warehouse, a shop where leather workers' materials and tools are kept on sale.
• WEIGHER
  One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.
• GRINDELIA
  The dried stems and leaves of tarweed , used as a remedy in asthma and bronchitis.
• GRINDING
  from Grind. Grinding frame, an English name for a cotton spinning machine. -- Grinding mill. A mill for grinding grain. A lapidary's lathe.
• INTIMIDATE
  To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson. Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; abash;
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• AWEIGH
  Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.
• UNWEIGHING
  Not weighing or pondering; inconsiderate. Shak.