overborne

[ oh-ver-bawrn, -bohrn ]

adjective

1. overcome; crushed; oppressed.

verb

1. past participle of overbear.

Word History and Origins

Origin of overborne¹

First recorded in 1605–15

Example Sentences

The question is not, as Mr. Luttig wrote, “whether a reasonable person would conclude that her impartiality would be inescapably overborne by the flood of influences brought to bear on her.”

From Washington Post

“How can it not overborne your will if you think there is even a small chance of saving your child’s life?” he asked Ms. Egan, the lawyer for Rensselaer County.

From New York Times

One by one the few scientific men who still held out were overborne by the weight of evidence.

From Project Gutenberg

Ralph, although overborne by grief, possessed a firmness of mind that sought a remedy for affliction, where a remedy was attainable, instead of tamely yielding.

From Project Gutenberg

With Him is no respect of persons; the servant is in his sight as vivid a personality as the mistress, and God appears not to the overbearing mistress but to the overborne servant.

From Project Gutenberg