English-Thai Dictionary

overbear

VT มี ชัยชนะ  overcome overwhelm me-chai-cha-na

 

overbearing

ADJ ช่าง เจ้ากี้เจ้าการ  ที่ ชอบ บังคับ  domineering bossy chueng-jao-ke-jao-kan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OVERBEAR

v.t.[See Bear. ] To bear down; to repress; to subdue. The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war.
Yet fortune, valor, all is overborne by numbers.
Till overborne with weight the Cyprians fell.

 

OVERBEARING

ppr. 1. Bearing down; repressing.
2. a. Haughty and dogmatical; disposed or tending to repress or subdue by insolence or effrontery.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

OVERBEAR

OVERBEAR O `ver *bear ", v. t.

 

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 (Thucyd. )

 

2. To domineer over; to overcome by insolence.

 

OVERBEAR

OVERBEAR O `ver *bear ", v. i.

 

Defn: To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.

 

OVERBEARING

OVERBEARING O `ver *bear "ing, a.

 

1. Overpowering; subduing; repressing. I. Watts.

 

2. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent. --O `ver *bear "ing *ly, adv. -- O `ver *bear "ing *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

overbear

o ver bear |ˌōvərˈber ˌoʊvərˈbɛr | ▶verb ( past overbore; past participle overborne ) [ with obj. ] overcome by emotional pressure or physical force: his will had not been overborne by another's influence | he overbore the others who still favored a bold policy.

 

overbearing

o ver bear ing |ˌōvərˈbe (ə )riNG ˌoʊvərˈbɛrɪŋ | ▶adjective unpleasantly or arrogantly domineering: his overbearing, sometimes ruthless desire to succeed. DERIVATIVES o ver bear ing ly adverb, o ver bear ing ness noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

overbear

over |bear |əʊvəˈbɛː | ▶verb ( past overbore; past participle overborne ) [ with obj. ] overcome by emotional pressure or physical force: his will had not been overborne by another's influence.

 

overbearing

over |bear |ing |əʊvəˈbɛərɪŋ | ▶adjective unpleasantly overpowering: an overbearing, ill-tempered brute. DERIVATIVES overbearingly adverb, overbearingness noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

overbearing

overbearing adjective his overbearing wife: domineering, dominating, autocratic, tyrannical, despotic, oppressive, high-handed, bullying; informal bossy.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

overbearing

overbearing adjective he was at the mercy of his overbearing wife: domineering, dominating, autocratic, tyrannical, despotic, heavy-handed, oppressive, high-handed, bullying, high and mighty, lordly, lording it, officious, masterful, dictatorial, bossy, imperious, pontifical, pompous, peremptory, arrogant, cocksure, proud, over-proud, overweening, presumptuous, opinionated, dogmatic; informal pushy, throwing one's weight about, cocky.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

overbear

ò ver b é ar 動詞 ～s ; -bore /-bɔ́ː r /; -borne /-bɔ́ː r n /他動詞 …を威圧する ; …を転覆させる ; …を圧倒する .

 

overbearing

over bearing /òʊvə r bé ə rɪŋ /形容詞 ｟否定的に ｠〈人が 〉高圧的な, 横柄な, 高飛車な ; 〈物が 〉圧倒的な .