overbearとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /əʊvəˈbɛː/

動詞

overbear (三人称単数 現在形 overbears, 現在分詞 overbearing, 過去形 overbore, 過去分詞 overborne)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To carry over. [10th-14th c.]
2. (transitive) To push through by physical weight or strength; to overwhelm, overcome. [from 16th c.]
   • 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer; Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 287:

     I attacked first and they were overborne, / Glad to apologize and even suing / Pardon for what they'd never thought of doing.

3. (transitive) To prevail over; to dominate, overpower; to oppress. [from 16th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 5, canto 11:

     It often fals, in course of common life, / That right long time is overborne of wrong […].