Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - overpower
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(overpowers, overpowering, overpowered) 1. If you overpower someone, you manage to take hold of and keep hold of them, although they struggle a lot. It took ten guardsmen to overpower him... VERB: V n 2. If a feeling overpowers you, it suddenly affects you very strongly. A sudden dizziness overpowered him... = overwhelm VERB: V n 3. In a sports match, when one team or player overpowers the other, they play much better than them and beat them easily. Britain’s tennis No 1 yesterday overpowered American Brian Garrow 7-6, 6-3. VERB: V n 4. If something such as a colour or flavour overpowers another colour or flavour, it is so strong that it makes the second one less noticeable. On fair skin, pale shades are delicate enough not to overpower your colouring. = overwhelm VERB: V n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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transitive verb Date: 1593 1. to overcome by superior force ; subdue 2. to affect with overwhelming intensity the stench ~ed us 3. to provide with more power than is needed or desirable a dangerously ~ed car • ~ingly adverb ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. 1 reduce to submission, subdue. 2 make (a thing) ineffective or imperceptible by greater intensity. 3 (of heat, emotion, etc.) be too intense for, overwhelm. Derivatives overpowering adj. overpoweringly adv. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. пересиливать, брать верх; превосходить to overpower the enemy —- побеждать врага anger overpowered every other feeling —- гнев заглушил все другие чувства 2. одолевать; сломить, раздавить to be overpowered by grief —- быть раздавленным горем the heat overpowered him —- его одолела жара the thought of one man owning all those books overpowered him —- его поразила мысль, что все эти книги принадлежали одному человеку 3. придавать больше силы, энергии, мощности to overpower an automobile —- снабдить автомобиль более мощным двигателем ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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v. пересиливать, брать верх; подавлять; the heat overpowered me - жара одолела меня Syn: see vanquish ...Англо-русский словарь
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