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overpower, v.|əʊvəˈpaʊə(r)|
[over- 22 b.]
1. trans. To overcome with superior power or force (physical or moral); to reduce to submission; to subdue, defeat, vanquish, master.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, v. i. 31 The Lyon dying..wounds the Earth, if nothing else, with rage To be o're-powr'd. 1639Fuller Holy War iv. x. (1840) 195 The Christians..though overpowered in number, made a great slaughter of their enemies. 1778F. Burney Evelina (1791) II. xxvi. 158 Mrs Selwyn quite overpowered me with the force of her arguments. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xi. III. 39 Those officers who attempted to restrain the rioters were overpowered and disarmed.
2. To render (a thing, agency, quality, etc., material or immaterial) ineffective or imperceptible, by excess of force or intensity.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 4 Whether the efficacie of the one had not overpowred the penalty of the other, we leave it unto God. 1748Gray Alliance 65 Can..suns..O'erpower the fire that animates our frame? 1806A. Hunter Culina (ed. 3) 187 Strong sauces that overpower the natural flavour of the fish. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. I. 463 All such sympathies were now overpowered by a stronger feeling.
3. To overcome by intensity (as fatigue, emotion, etc.); to be too intense or violent for, ‘be too much for’; to crush, overwhelm.
1667Milton P.L. viii. 453 My earthly by his Heav'nly overpowerd..sunk down. 1775Sheridan Duenna ii. i, Lord! Lord! I am afraid I shall be overpowered with her beauty. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest i, The violent agitation of mind and fatigue of body, had overpowered her strength. 1832Lytton Eugene A. ii. iv, The shy and secluded student, whom it was his object to dazzle and overpower. 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet I. 91 We might be overpowered with the grandeur of the house. |