To carry over.
To push through by physical weight or strength; to overwhelm, overcome.
I attacked first and they were overborne, / Glad to apologize and even suing / Pardon for what they'd never thought of doing.
To prevail over; to dominate, overpower; to oppress.
It often fals, in course of common life, / That right long time is overborne of wrong […].
From Middle English overberen; equivalent to over- + bear.
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