Overpowering is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OVERPOWERING in dictionary:

VERB:
• OVERPOWER, to overcome or reduce to helplessness
• be too intense for; overwhelm
• defeat or overcome with superior strength
ADJECTIVE:
• Excelling in power; too powerful; irresistible.
• so strong as to be irresistible
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to overcome by superior force; subdue

Words related to OVERPOWERING

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Words that contain OVERPOWERING

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How to use OVERPOWERING in a sentence

• Certainly my heart and mind were full enough not to waste looks on a commonplace stranger unless there had been some such overpowering reason.
• Both the grand and the terrible were present to an almost overpowering degree.
• It fettered her spirit, it hung upon her like an overpowering weight.
• The slaves succeeded in overpowering the crew and in confining the captain and the white passengers.
• The odor of the wild grape-blossoms, which came up to us, as we rode along the edge, was overpowering in its sweetness.
• At last he could stand it no longer, and an overpowering longing for the fresh air and the green grass came over him.
• All he knew, then, was an overpowering will to see her.
• It was one man against two hundred, and he was horribly afraid of his sickness overpowering him and leaving him at their mercy.
• A man of resolution may give way to the overpowering sensations of the moment.
• Perhaps my thoughts will seem trivial when I have written them, but the emotion that inspired them was very wonderful and overpowering.
• They little thought how overpowering were my feelings.
• Then slowly a change was noticeable in his eyes, and all leaned forward with overpowering intentness.
• I knew instinctively that this was the famous old town-hall, the most astonishing and overpowering of all Belgian monuments.
• His passion for her was no longer overpowering, and no amount of thinking could make it so.
• But she withdrew it abruptly, and sat down, seized with more overpowering shyness than she had ever experienced.
• Paul, give to the stranger an overpowering impression of the wealth and the strength of the empire.
• An overpowering force within him urged him to clasp her to himself.
• A sluggish, overpowering sloth was mingled with the strength in his muscles, which were strong as cords.
• The thrill of contact, the wild hope that this girl really cared unusually for me, became almost overpowering.
• In the overpowering happiness of the hour she had entirely forgotten the danger which threatened her lover.
• At that hour General Frost, the Rebel commander, was surprised at the appearance of an overpowering force on the hills surrounding his position.
• The deafening noise of the thunder, as it echoed among the hills, the overpowering glare of the lightning, the torrents of rain, and the violence of the wind were truly awful.
• Checked for a time by an adherence to our resolutions, they gradually recover their former strength, until they again break forth, and we yield to their overpowering influence.
• Indeed, his midnight music was sometimes overpowering.
• And when at last, the worst of the battle over, she was overtaken by an overpowering weariness of mind and body, all things combined to place her at a hopeless disadvantage.
• In these days, when the output of merely amusing novels is so overpowering, this is no slight praise.
• Nancy was but one of the number who resisted influences apparently overpowering.

Similar words containing OVERPOWER without suffix ing

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