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Princeton's WordNet

  1. overpowering, overwhelmingadjective

    so strong as to be irresistible

    "an overpowering need for solitude"; "the temptation to despair may become overwhelming"; "an overwhelming majority"

Wiktionary

  1. overpoweringadjective

    That overpowers; so strong as to be overwhelming.

ChatGPT

  1. overpowering

    Overpowering generally refers to something extremely strong, intense, or influential, often to an overwhelming degree. This term can describe physical forces, like a person who is stronger than others, or abstract factors, such as a smell or emotion that is extremely strong. It can also refer to the act of gaining control or dominance over someone or something else.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of overpowering in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of overpowering in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of overpowering in a Sentence

  1. Gregory Gillespie:

    We were almost overpowering them, if you had like another 15, 20 guys behind us pushing I think we could have won it.

  2. Travis McMichael:

    I didn't know where I was at, but I knew that he was on me, I knew that I was losing this, i knew that Travis McMichael was overpowering me but I didn't know which direction or what mechanics Travis McMichael was doing to overpower me.

  3. Macduff:

    Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which "bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things," which "thinks no evil."

  4. Puerto Ricans.Yet Trump:

    Every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like (Hurricane) Katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here with, really, a storm that was just totally overpowering -- nobody has ever seen anything like this.

  5. Donald Trump:

    Every death is a horror -- but if you look at a real catastrophe, like Hurricane Katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here with, really, a storm that was just totally overpowering -- nobody has ever seen anything like this, everybody around this table and everybody watching can really be very proud of what's taken place in Puerto Rico.

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