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overpower(dictionary)

overpower (iou)



overpower verb trans. L16.
[from OVER- + POWER verb.]
Overcome with superior power or force; reduce to submission. L16.
A. Cross A man could have overpowered her.
Make (a quality etc.) ineffective or imperceptible by excess of force or intensity. M17.
J. Buchan The searching odour was apt to overpower the wafts of lilac.
Be too intense for; overwhelm. M17.
P. Gay Charcot's scientific style and personal charm overpowered Freud.
overpoweringly adverb in an overpowering manner, to an overpowering degree E19.