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overpowering

verb

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of overpower

  2. That overpowers

    That overpowers; so strong as to be overwhelming.

    • The fact that approximately 40% of spoken language at the cafeteria was not English, suggests that the effect of the near 100% English signage is far from overpowering.

  3. The process of something being overpowered.

    • Each of these concepts can be used, and is used, to justify the various overpowerings and abuses that are typical of capitalism as we know it, pace the Enlightenment thinkers and any other ideal model.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA