overbear as a verb: - 1
- 2
- 3
overbear
verb
1 overbear
2 overbear
3 overbear
Contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery.
synonym: bear down.
overborne
adjective
Roget 732:
unsuccessful,
successless†;
failing,
tripping
etc.
v.;
at fault;
unfortunate
etc.
735.
abortive,
addle,
stillborn;
fruitless,
bootless;
ineffectual,
ineffective,
inconsequential,
trifling,
nugatory;
inefficient
etc.
(impotent)
158;
insufficient
etc.
640;
unavailing
etc.
(useless)
645;
of no effect.
aground,
grounded,
swamped,
stranded,
cast away,
wrecked,
foundered,
capsized,
shipwrecked,
nonsuited†;
foiled;
defeated
etc.
731;
struck down,
borne down,
broken down;
downtrodden;
overborne,
overwhelmed;
all up with;
ploughed,
plowed,
plucked.
lost,
undone,
ruined,
broken;
bankrupt
etc.
(not paying)
808;
played out;
done up,
done for;
dead beat,
ruined root and branch,
flambe†,
knocked on the head;
destroyed
etc.
162.
frustrated,
crossed,
unhinged,
disconcerted dashed;
thrown off one's balance,
thrown on one's back,
thrown on one's beam ends†;
unhorsed,
in a sorry plight;
hard hit.
stultified,
befooled†,
dished,
hoist on one's own petard;
victimized,
sacrificed.
wide of the mark
etc.
(error)
495;
out of one's reckoning
etc.
(inexpectation)
508†;
left in the lurch;
thrown away
etc.
(wasted)
638;
unattained;
uncompleted
etc.
730.
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Roget 749:
subject,
dependent,
subordinate;
feudal,
feudatory;
in subjection to,
under control;
in leading strings,
in harness;
subjected,
enslaved
etc.
v.;
constrained
etc.
751;
downtrodden;
overborne,
overwhelmed;
under the lash,
on the hip,
led by the nose,
henpecked;
the puppet of,
the sport of,
the plaything of;
under one's orders,
under one's command,
under one's thumb;
a slave to;
at the mercy of;
in the power of,
in the hands of,
in the clutches of;
at the feet of;
at one's beck and call
etc.
(obedient)
743;
liable
etc.
177;
parasitical;
stipendiary.
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