Dictionary Entry
overbear
overbear is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress.
- 2transitive verb
To domineer over; to overcome by insolence.
- 3intransitive verb
To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.
- 4verb
contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery
- 5verb
bear too much
- 6verb
overcome
"overbear criticism, protest, or arguments"
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