overbear
忍耐,忍耐力,忍受,承受不起
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o·ver·bore, o·ver·borne, o·ver·bear·ing.
- : to bear over or down by weight or force: With his superior strength he easily overbore his opponent in the fight.
- : to overcome or overwhelm: A spirited defense had overborne the enemy attack.
- : to prevail over or overrule: She overbore all objections to the new plan.
- : to treat in a domineering way; dominate: to overbear one's children with threats of violence.
- : Nautical. to have the advantage of because of an ability to carry more canvas safely.
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o·ver·bore, o·ver·borne, o·ver·bear·ing.
- : to produce fruit or progeny so abundantly as to impair the health.
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“The responsibility, the weight, the burden was overbearing on her,” Laimbeer said of Wilson, who was schooled in an egalitarian college program at South Carolina and reluctant to demand the ball when it didn’t naturally find her.
The natural thing for him is to give full sway to impulses that are so violent as to overbear his powers.
He was angry, but he would never more attempt to overbear me with grand threats.
I have through my whole life interfered to protect, not overbear, the sufferer; and I must do so now.
The meer Agreableness must not overbear us, without distinguishing upon the Quality, and the Means.
Vine variable in vigor, productive, healthy, often inclined to overbear.