overbore

[ oh-ver-bawr, -bohr ]

verb

1. simple past tense of overbear.

Example Sentences

Assistant Attorney General Sunita Doddamani said there is no evidence that the informant’s actions “overbore” the defendants’ will “to be law-abiding citizens.”

From Seattle Times

In combat he was terrifying, fighting entirely to kill, indifferent to any wounds he received himself and closing with his adversaries until his weight overbore and exhausted them.

From Literature

His sense of public duty, however, overbore all personal considerations, and he set sail on the 16th of March, 1775, and died off Gloucester, Massachusetts, on the 26th of April.

From Project Gutenberg

It was Forester who overbore with ridicule my suggestion that he should be fed at regular hours, for which I never forgave him.

From Project Gutenberg

He had thundered against the King and the King's trusted Ministers, the Walpoles and the Carterets, with a voice that overbore all others, and which apparently could not be silenced.

From Project Gutenberg