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What does overbear mean?

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Verb
  1. (obsolete, transitive) To carry over. [10th-14th c.]
  2. (transitive) To push through by physical weight or strength; to overwhelm, overcome. [from 16th c.]
  3. (transitive) To prevail over; to dominate, overpower; to oppress. [from 16th c.]
  4. (intransitive) To produce an overabundance of fruit. [from 18th c.]
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Calm, cool, firm self-possession seemed to overbear all other feelings.
Vine variable in vigor, productive, healthy, often inclined to overbear.
In R v Singh, the Court of Appeal held that a threat to expose the defendant's adultery would not be sufficient threat to overbear the will of an ordinary person.
Was it that in the reserved Spaniard he had encountered a force which he could not overbear?
Does the sublime voice issue only to overbear and reduce him to silence?
The trees are inclined to overbear, in which case the fruits run small.

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