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verb : OVERBEARING
Source:WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) overcome; "overbear criticism, protest, or arguments" ;
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2. (
) bear too much ;
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3. (
) contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery ;
Adjective : OVERBEARING
Source:WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter" ;
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2. (
- disdainful ,
- haughty ,
- imperious ,
- lordly ,
- overbearing ,
- prideful ,
- sniffy ,
- supercilious ,
- swaggering
) 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 ;
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