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overbearing
 
Adjective overbearing has 1 sense
  1. authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearing - expecting unquestioning obedience; "he was imperious and dictatorial"; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"
    Antonym: submissive (indirect, via domineering)
Verb overbear has 3 senses
  1. overbear - overcome; "overbear criticism, protest, or arguments"
    --1 is one way to     dominate
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. overbear - bear too much
    --2 is one way to     bear, turn out
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  3. bear down, overbear - contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery
    --3 is one way to compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
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