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Verb: overpower  `owvu'pawu(r)
  1. Overcome by superior force
    - overmaster, overwhelm
     
  2. Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
    - overwhelm, sweep over, whelm [archaic], overcome, overtake

Derived forms: overpowered, overpowers, overpowering

Type of: arouse, beat, beat out, crush, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise, shell, trounce, vanquish

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