overbear criticism, protest, or arguments.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

´You are first intrepid, if you overbear your fear!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do you suffer from Eco-Anxiety? | ultraorange.net] Reference

Hutchinsons and Olivers will rule and overbear all Things as usual.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Adams diary 20, 28 February - 25 June 1774] Reference

I go out of my way to be polite, to listen, to not overbear with my opinions.    From Wordnik.com.  [blog: Crouch] Reference

But when he may in nowise overbear their blind counsel, and all goes at fierce.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

That's fine until year 35+ when the trees begin to overbear the views of the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Arborist Alehouse...] Reference

The tree is hardy, a rapid grower, comes into bearing early, and is, if anything, inclined to overbear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fruits of Queensland] Reference

Mr. MOTTIER says he might have obtained a larger yield of wine, but his vineyard being young, he would not allow it to overbear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines] Reference

Let us not add mistakenly to the duties left undone the attempt to do things we should not, namely, to overbear instead of aiding the personal life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Family and it's Members] Reference

Alessan will not have me overbear, though I keep telling him that I am happiest pregnant and never suffer as others have from being in that condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nerilka's Story]

The line between primary and secondary employment seems to be the critical psychological point at which his good common sense ceases to overbear his bad theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money] Reference

Whatever the cause, you do feel that the style is an integral part of the film, it doesn't detract or overbear at all, and that had been one of my earlier concerns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filmstalker Review: 300] Reference

He throws down a challenge to Claudius, whom he detects hiding behind a curtain to overbear bis interview with Ophelia, by shouting 'We will have no more marriage'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

They asked us, to put it quite plainly, for a free hand, so far as we were concerned, when they selected the opportunity to overbear, to dominate the European world.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?] Reference

Although there has been and is more or less of sympathy with the slave-holders in certain circles, they are not so powerful as to overbear the general sentiment of the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference

His voice was loud and confident, and pitched to overbear any rival attempt at business, but the goldsmith, who had preceded him off the ship, made no attempt to set up his stall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wicked Day]

To overbear or wrong those weaker than themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dawn and the Day Or, The Buddha and the Christ, Part I] Reference

After which he added: "Well then, I might overbear you.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Awkward Age] Reference

Varieties that tend to overbear profit very greatly by thinning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference

Calm, cool, firm self-possession seemed to overbear all other feelings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan] Reference

He wants to fight, to overbear, to crush, directly he feels opposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eleanor] Reference

"Then you did overbear us," said the ruffian Cobb; "it won't do to trust him.".    From Wordnik.com.  [My First Voyage to Southern Seas] Reference

There are times when the fiery heart of a man must overbear the cold brain of a soldier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Nigel] Reference

Still, he could not overbear the other four regicide Directors, even though one of these.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)] Reference

For there is in me a fatal softness which no man can have and overbear others in this world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lazarre] Reference

His wickedness is fertile only of despair; and the billows of remorse will some time overbear him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference

Peaches and Japan plums are especially benefited by thinning, as they have a great tendency to overbear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use] Reference

The natural thing for him is to give full sway to impulses that are so violent as to overbear his powers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays] Reference

If the best size and quality of fruit are desired, care must be taken to see that the plant does not overbear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference

In New England the Puritans were supreme, notwithstanding the efforts of the crown to overbear their authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the United States] Reference

There are times when there is no medicine for us in sages, we want slaves; we scorn to temporize, we must overbear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

Such spectacles and such examples will overbear all the laws that ever blackened the cumbrous volumes of our statutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)] Reference

He looked soldierly; but the soldier in him did not really very much overbear the demeanour of the quiet, ordinary gentleman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dictator] Reference

Great as is the weight of the aggregate vote in these henceforth compacted cities, the vote of the State will always overbear it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1883] Reference

Ministry unless the power were conceded to them to create as many new peers as might be necessary to overbear all opposition to the Reform.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4)] Reference