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overborne

/oh-ver-bawrn, -bohrn/US // ˌoʊ vərˈbɔrn, -ˈboʊrn //

超载,俯卧撑,超越,凌空

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : overcome; crushed; oppressed.
v.动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : past participle of overbear.

Examples

  • Overborne by their counsels, after lying in front of the position for three days he withdrew to Ciudad Rodrigo.

  • Not long was the combat, for Calf was overborne by odds and fled with his folk.

  • The captain killed several of the Indians with his knife, and was the last to fall, overborne in the end by numbers.

  • One instant I saw the banker toss his arms like a semaphore; the next we were overborne.

  • But these were soon overborne and silenced by a greater number, who now again called upon Probus to fill that office.