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Adjective: overbearing  `ow-vu(r)'beh-ring
  1. Expecting unquestioning obedience
    "insufferably overbearing behaviour toward the waiter"
    - authoritarian, dictatorial
     
  2. Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
    "some economists are overbearing of their colleagues in other social disciplines"
    - disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering
Verb: overbear (overbore,overborne)  `ow-vu(r)'behr
  1. Overcome
    "overbear criticism, protest, or arguments"
     
  2. Bear too much
     
  3. Contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery
    - bear down

See also: domineering, overbearingly, overbearingness, proud

Type of: bear, compact, compress, constrict, contract, dominate, press, squeeze, turn out