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What does overborne mean?

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  1. simple past tense and past participle of overbear
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Friedan was initially appalled, but her strategic caution was overborne in the extraordinary growth of the women's-liberation movement.
If these forces had been used straightforwardly, France must have been overborne.
But the Chief Justice's wisdom and logic has overborne your desire to fight for that end.
She had a responsibility that was not overborne by the will of Michael Philpott.
Even if a monocrat were elected, he would be overborne by the republican sense of his constituents.
The evidence suggests this committee was unlikely to be overborne.

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