overmaster
verb (used with object)
to gain mastery over; conquer; overpower.
overmasteringly
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a word derived from
overmaster.
Example Sentences
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He himself felt a certain kittenishness sporting within him; but it was, like all his emotions, rather a theoretical feeling; it did not overmasteringly seek to express itself in a practical demonstration of kittenishness.
From Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
He had come to talk of Ernestine and the future; the things about him drew him overmasteringly to Karl and the past.
From The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love by Susan Glaspell
But this that had come so suddenly and overmasteringly over John Willie was a different thing altogether.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
"What can it be?" she cried, filial love returning overmasteringly.
From Old Man Savarin and Other Stories by Edward William Thomson
