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Adjective overpowered has 1 sense
- flooded, inundated, overcome, overpowered, overwhelmed, swamped, engulfed - rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something; "a desk flooded with applications"; "felt inundated with work"; "too much overcome to notice"; "a man engulfed by fear"; "swamped by work"
Antonym: powerful (indirect, via powerless)
Verb overpower has 2 senses
- overpower, overmaster, overwhelm - overcome by superior force
--1 is one way to beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
Sample sentence:
The fighter managed to overpower his opponent
- overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake - overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
--2 is one way to arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
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