overbearing

(verb) overcome. Synonyms: overbear. Example: "Overbear criticism, protest, or arguments."

(verb) bear too much. Synonyms: overbear.

(verb) contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery. Synonyms: bear down, overbear.

(adj) expecting unquestioning obedience. Synonyms: authoritarian, dictatorial. Examples: "The timid child of authoritarian parents." "Insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter."

(adj) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy. Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering. Examples: "Some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines." "Haughty aristocrats." "His lordly manners were offensive." "Walked with a prideful swagger." "Very sniffy about breaches of etiquette." "His mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air." "A more swaggering mood than usual"- w.l.shirer."