overmaster
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of overmaster
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at over-, master
Example Sentences
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It was a welcome reminder that even in the rankly toxic House of Representatives, sometimes the personal transcends the ideological and that civility and empathy can overmaster appearances.
From Slate • Jan. 25, 2012
Illusions which, though now in some measure dispelled, were long powerful enough to overmaster the mind of every politician, both speculative and practical, in Europe.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur
The necessity of recovering it cooled for the moment the passion which had threatened to overmaster him.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 by Various
The glory of the Indian summer is wholly ethereal; it belongs to the light and the air; and is a striking image and eloquent testimony of how far spirit can overmaster matter.
From A Red Wallflower by Warner, Susan
This was the foe—the stealthy-footed demon, that had at last come to overmaster the brave and noble Angus Rothesay.
From Olive A Novel by Bowers, G.
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