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overˈpowering, ppl. a.
[f. prec. + -ing2.]
That overpowers; so powerful as to subdue or overcome; irresistible, overwhelming.
1700Dryden Palamon & Arc. i. 235 Struck blind with overpowering light he stood. 1884A. Paul Hist. Reform v. 101 The demand..was too overpowering to be successfully resisted.
Hence overˈpoweringly adv., in an overpowering manner or degree; irresistibly, overwhelmingly.
1812Examiner 7 Sept. 571/2 Overpoweringly droll. 1828Macaulay in Life & Lett. (1880) I. iii. 153 Sleep comes on him overpoweringly. 1886Symonds Renaiss. It., Cath. React. (1898) VII. xiii. 218 One of his overpoweringly virulent invectives. |