Definition of "overbear"

overbear

/əʊvəˈbɛː/

verb
third-person singular simple present overbears, present participle overbearing, simple past overbore, past participle overborne
1. (obsolete, transitive) To carry over.
2. (transitive) To push through by physical weight or strength; to overwhelm, overcome.
  Quotations
  I attacked first and they were overborne, / Glad to apologize and even suing / Pardon for what they'd never thought of doing.
  1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 287
3. (transitive) To prevail over; to dominate, overpower; to oppress.
  Quotations
  It often fals, in course of common life, / That right long time is overborne of wrong […].
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
4. (intransitive) To produce an overabundance of fruit.