overpower
verb (used with object)
to overcome, master, or subdue by superior force.
have been overpowering
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present perfect progressiveof overpower.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Jackson looks sharp again after a rough National League Championship Series, and the other three have been overpowering throughout the postseason, with a combined 1.10 earned run average and 43 strikeouts in 32 ⅔ innings.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2021
In a small room, which a portrait by Holbein would have decorated nobly, a canvas by Van Dyck would have been overpowering.
From The Book of Art for Young People by Agnes Ethel Conway
The excitement of knowing that in a few hours he would be taken into that great mystery must have been overpowering.
From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt
The deep delicious perfumes of tropical blooms, even of tree and shrub, would have been overpowering had it not been for the lightness of the air and the constant though gentle wind.
From The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
White lilies everywhere; and the perfume would have been overpowering, had not the weather been so exquisite that open windows were possible and even pleasant.
From The Man Between, an International Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
