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Definition of Overpowers
1. overpower [v] - See also: overpower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overpowers
Literary usage of Overpowers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1907 " Sleep overpowers when humans fail."—Heading with reference to the capture
of a maniac : St. Louis Republic, Oct. 28. ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1831)
"... Committee disapproves of their proceedings—The Populace overpowers the Burghers,
and dissolves the Committee—Provisional Government appointed—The Troops ..."
3. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1888)
"... Commander of the Labor Army overpowers all Resistance—Battle of Leuca —Overthrow
of the Romans—Death of Crassus—Arrival of the Consul Paperna—Defeat of ..."
4. New Testament Theology: Or, Historical Account of the Teaching of Jesus and by Willibald Beyschlag, Neil Buchanan (1895)
"... that overpowers him. He who is called must afterwards say that in this process
divine grace has had the ascendency, and has indeed done everything ..."
5. Larcher's Notes on Herodotus: Historical and Critical Comments on the by Pierre-Henri Larcher (1844)
"... but ambition soon re-asserts its supremacy, and overpowers those better feelings.
I greatly doubt whether Valerius Maximus has guessed the real source ..."
6. Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 and 1811 by Louis Simond (1817)
"The difieren t governments of the Confinent of Europe, old and infirm, are
half-factious hall-des- polic ;—one alone, purely df^p,>tio, overpowers the ..."
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