亚洲网紅露点

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overbearing

[ oh-ver-bair-ing ]

adjective

  1. domineering; dictatorial; haughtily or rudely arrogant.
  2. of overwhelming or critical importance.


overbearing

/ 藢蓹蕣惫蓹藞产蓻蓹谤瑟艐 /

adjective

  1. domineering or dictatorial in manner or action
  2. of particular or overriding importance or significance
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藢辞惫别谤藞产别补谤颈苍驳濒测, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 辞顎卾别谤路产别补谤顎僫苍驳路濒测 adverb
  • 辞顎卾别谤路产别补谤顎僫苍驳路苍别蝉蝉 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of overbearing1

First recorded in 1590鈥1600; overbear + -ing 2
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Example Sentences

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Foreign leaders have domestic politics too, and if they鈥檙e seen as capitulating to an overbearing U.S. president, they pay a price.

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New Zealand's commerce minister Andrew Bayly has resigned as a government minister after he "placed a hand" on a staff member's upper arm last week, in what he described as "overbearing" behaviour.

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The show sees Lucy Punch reprise her role as Amanda, the overbearing and competitive mother who was a viewer favourite in the original series.

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His father, Dave, was a salesman who never recovered from the Great Depression; the breadwinner was his mother, Rhoda, a fashion sketch artist whose overbearing nature left track marks on his psyche.

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Henry is overprotective while Mary is overbearing and suffering from artist鈥檚 block.

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