overbearing Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb overcome
   overbear.
   
   • overbear criticism, protest, or arguments
2. verb bear too much
   overbear.
   
3. verb contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery
   overbear; bear down.
   
4. adjective satellite expecting unquestioning obedience
   authoritarian; dictatorial.
   
   • the timid child of authoritarian parents
   • insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter
5. adjective satellite having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
   haughty; swaggering; prideful; imperious; lordly; disdainful; supercilious; sniffy.
   
   • some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines
   • haughty aristocrats
   • his lordly manners were offensive
   • walked with a prideful swagger
   • very sniffy about breaches of etiquette
   • his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air
   • a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

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