1. (

• overbear

) overcome; "overbear criticism, protest, or arguments" ;

2. (

• overbear

) bear too much ;

3. (

• bear_down ,
• overbear

) contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery ;

1. (

• authoritarian ,
• dictatorial ,
• overbearing

) expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter" ;

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 ;