Word Meanings - OUTFROWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To frown down; to overbear by frowning. Shak.

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• OVERBEAR
  1. To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress. The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war. Bacon. Overborne with weight the Cyprians
• FROWNINGLY
  In a frowning manner.
• FROWN
  the brow, to frown; perh. of Teutonic origin; cf. It. in frigno wrinkled, frowning, Prov. It. frignare to cringe the face, to make a 1. To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.
• OVERBEARING
  1. Overpowering; subduing; repressing. I. Watts. 2. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent. --O`ver*bear"ing*ly, adv. -- O`ver*bear"ing*ness, n.
• FROWNY
  Frowning; scowling. Her frowny mother's ragged shoulder. Sir F. Palgrave.
• OUTFROWN
  To frown down; to overbear by frowning. Shak.