Overmaster
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Definition
(v. t.) To overpower; to subdue; to vanquish; to govern.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Overpower.
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Definition
v.t. to subdue to govern: to get and keep in one's power.
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Examples
- Love overmasters the thoughts of his youth, and he becomes in sober reality the monster that he was sometimes in sleep. Plato. The Republic.
- He closed the door behind him, and then he stood with clenched hands and heaving breast, choking down some overmastering emotion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Look at the affair more quietly, said Mr. Cadwallader, sorry to see his good-natured friend so overmastered by anger. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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