verb
- Overcome.
- usage: "overbear criticism, protest, or arguments"
- synonyms: overbear
- Bear too much.
- synonyms: overbear
- Contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery.
adjective
- Expecting unquestioning obedience.
- usage: "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"
- synonyms: authoritarian, dictatorial
- Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy."some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual- W. L. Shirer
- synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering
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