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overpoweringnoun the act or process of bringing someone or something under one's controlthe overpowering of much of Europe by the Nazis during World War II conquest, dominating, domination, subduing, subjecting, subjection, subjugating, subjugation, vanquishing triumph, victory, win, winningbeating, defeat, drubbing, licking, shellacking, trimming, trouncing, whippingenslavementtakeover emancipation, enfranchisement, freeing, liberation, manumission, release overpoweringverbpresent participle of overpowerto bring under one's control by force of armsthe invading army overpowered the countryside with lightning speed conquering, dominating, pacifying, subduing, subjecting, subjugating, subordinating, vanquishing annihilating, beating, clobbering, crushing, defeating, drubbing, licking, mowing (down), overcoming, prevailing (over), reducing, routing, skunking, smashing, thrashing, triumphing (over), trouncing, walloping, whippingenslavingbreaking, clamping down (on), cracking down (on), putting down, quashing, quelling, repressing, silencing, smothering, snuffing (out), squashing, squelching, suppressing discharging, emancipating, enfranchising, freeing, liberating, manumitting, releasing, springing, unbinding, uncaging, unchaining, unfettering to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stressoverpowered by fear of the unknown crushing, devastating, flooring, grinding (down), oppressing, overcoming, overmastering, overwhelming, prostrating, snowing under, swamping, whelming deluging, drowning, sinkingconfuting, defeating, refutingbreaking, demoralizing, distressing, disturbing, rocking, shattering, staggering, throwing, unmanning, unnerving, upsetting |