All overbear synonyms
o·ver·bear
O o verb overbear
- oppress — to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
- bludgeon — To bludgeon someone means to hit them several times with a heavy object.
- bluster — If you say that someone is blustering, you mean that they are speaking aggressively but without authority, often because they are angry or offended.
- bulldoze — If people bulldoze something such as a building, they knock it down using a bulldozer.
- cow — A cow is a large female animal that is kept on farms for its milk. People sometimes refer to male and female animals of this species as cows.
- domineer — Assert one's will over another in an arrogant way.
- dragoon — (especially formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop.
- frighten — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- overawe — to restrain or subdue by inspiring awe; intimidate: He often uses that imperious scowl to overawe his subordinates.
- threaten — to utter a threat against; menace: He threatened the boy with a beating.
- tyrannise — to exercise absolute power or control, especially cruelly or oppressively (often followed by over).
- tyrannize — to exercise absolute power or control, especially cruelly or oppressively (often followed by over).
- despotize — To behave like a despot.
- lord it over — (Idiomatic) VT To behave as if one is in control of; to make a display of having an advantage over or superiority to.
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- browbeat — If someone tries to browbeat you, they try to force you to do what they want.
- persecute — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- terrorize — to fill or overcome with terror.
- terrorise — to fill or overcome with terror.
- torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.