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動詞

overpress (三人称単数 現在形 overpresses, 現在分詞 overpressing, 過去形および過去分詞形 overpressed)

1. (transitive) To bear upon (someone または something) with irresistible force; to crush, to overwhelm.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 139”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signature I, verso:

     Deare heart forbeare to glance thine eye aſide, / VVhat needſt thou vvound vvith cunning vvhen thy might / Is more then my ore-preſt defence can bide?

     An adjective use.

   • c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     overpress'd spirits

2. (transitive) To overcome by importunity.

Further reading

• overpress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913