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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 over·bear /ˌovɚ/
 (vt.)威壓,壓服,壓抑(vi.)結實過多

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 O·ver·bear, v. i. To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 O·ver·bear v. t.
 1. To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress.
    The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war.   --Bacon.
    Overborne with weight the Cyprians fell.   --Dryden.
    They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who goes out of his own country to meet them.   --Jowett (Thucyd. )
 2. To domineer over; to overcome by insolence.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 overbear
      v 1: overcome; "overbear criticism, protest, or arguments"
      2: bear too much
      3: contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease
         delivery [syn: bear down]
      [also: overborne, overbore]