overborne

verb

variants also overborn
Definition of overbornenext
past participle of overbear
as in overcome
to achieve a victory over that year the football team simply overbore opponent after opponent with steamroller ruthlessness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overborne
  1. overcome
  2. conquered
  3. dispatched
  4. beaten
  5. mastered
Verb
  • Yet, deeper reading reveals an honest assessment of the challenges still to be overcome in making change a reality.
    Lauren Coulman, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Lawmakers overcame the 60-vote threshold to bypass a filibuster in a 73-27 vote.
    Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of overcome
Verb
  • Marc Pos It’s taken a decade to create the killer format, but 2024 was the year The Traitors conquered the world.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 Dec. 2024
  • By the time that the 16th century Spanish conquered Mexico, the plant was domesticated and in use as an ornamental for various ceremonies.
    Norman Ellstrand and Nathan Ellstrand / Made by History, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of conquered
Verb
  • This scene offers a different take on Metal, showing that there is an entire army of Metal Sonics, but they all get dispatched rather easily, after a surprise appearance from Amy, wielding her signature hammer.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Many were dispatched to shelters elsewhere in the city.
    Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of dispatched
Verb
  • The Bulls beat the Bucks 133-122 in their first matchup at Fiserv Forum.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Otherwise, the Seahawks would need to beat the Rams in Week 18 and hope to claim the strength-of-victory tiebreaker.
    Jeff Howe and Austin Mock, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of beaten
Verb
  • And Valverde has mastered this facet of the game, with five of his six goals this season coming from shots from outside the penalty area — the most by any player in Europe’s top five domestic leagues.
    Mario Cortegana, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Things happened—or didn’t happen—depending on who had the ear of the president at any moment and who had mastered the dark arts of bureaucratic warfare.
    Henry Farrell, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of mastered
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