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overborne

[ oh-ver-bawrn, -bohrn ]

adjective

  1. overcome; crushed; oppressed.


verb

  1. past participle of overbear.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of overborne1

First recorded in 1605–15
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Example Sentences

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Watts was "obsessed" with Sansom, but it was not a case of "one person's will being overborne by another", the judge added.

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The question is not, as Mr. Luttig wrote, “whether a reasonable person would conclude that her impartiality would be inescapably overborne by the flood of influences brought to bear on her.”

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“How can it not overborne your will if you think there is even a small chance of saving your child’s life?” he asked Ms. Egan, the lawyer for Rensselaer County.

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One by one the few scientific men who still held out were overborne by the weight of evidence.

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Ralph, although overborne by grief, possessed a firmness of mind that sought a remedy for affliction, where a remedy was attainable, instead of tamely yielding.

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