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What does overbore mean?

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Adjective
  1. (firearms) Relating to the situation where the capacity of the burning cartridge powder is more than the volume within the barrel.
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It was his love that urged him on, his love that overbore his scruples, his gravest apprehensions.
He sparkled with irresistible enthusiasm, he overbore opposition.
Despite Canning's antipathy to the congress system, Wellington himself overbore George IV's personal objections to him, believing that the system was by now unshakably established.
It was in defense of his ideas of justice that he overbore opposition.
What had I said to Mrs Steelyard, when she overbore me so, upon an empty stomach?
This so tickled Long Jack that he overbore Tom Platt, and the two went out together.

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