Overpowering
['ovɚ'paʊərɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) so strong as to be irresistible; 'an overpowering need for solitude'; 'the temptation to despair may become overwhelming'; 'an overwhelming majority' .
Edited by Hattie--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overpower
(a.) Excelling in power; too powerful; irresistible.
Typist: Rosa
Examples
- In my overpowering anxiety to hear what she had to tell me, I could not answer her--I could only put questions on my side. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He was altogether splendid, massive, overpowering, and impracticable. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And she had a disagreeable consciousness of not appearing to imply that it had been an overpowering pleasure. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It must, as you say, have been an overpowering necessity which tore him away in such a fashion, and the same necessity is likely to hold him away. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Even to see Mr. Crawford would be less overpowering. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- In the overpowering fears about to-morrow she had forgotten Rebecca--jealousy--everything except that her husband was gone and was in danger. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Under the overpowering influence of these sickly imaginations the moral teachings of Gautama have been almost hid from view. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The effect of the good news on poor Lady Glyde was, I grieve to say, quite overpowering. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But what power could the strongest swimmer oppose to the overpowering violence of ocean in its fury? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have more than once taken advantage of it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Such was the overpowering expectation of the audience to which President Wilson prepared to show himself. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Suddenly Birkin's eyes looked straight and overpowering into those of the other man. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What could be the reason of his overpowering terror? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Their appetite for the concrete was enormous; their knowledge of facts overpowering, as the tomes produced by Mr. and Mrs. Webb can testify. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Rosa