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overbearing adjective [ əʊvəˈbɛərɪŋ ]

• unpleasantly overpowering.
• "an overbearing, ill-tempered brute"
Similar: domineering, dominating, autocratic, tyrannical, despotic, heavy-handed, oppressive, high-handed, bullying, high and mighty, lordly, lording it, officious, masterful, dictatorial, bossy, imperious, pontifical, pompous, peremptory, arrogant, cocksure, proud, overproud, overweening, presumptuous, opinionated, dogmatic, pushy, throwing one's weight about, throwing one's weight around, cocky,

overbear verb

• overcome by emotional pressure or physical force.
• "his will had not been overborne by another's influence"


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