Usually means: Excessively strong or intense influence.
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  1. overpowering: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overpowering: Merriam-Webster
  3. overpowering: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overpowering: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overpowering: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overpowering: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overpowering, overpowering: Wordnik
  8. overpowering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overpowering: Wiktionary
  10. overpowering: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Overpowering, overpowering: Dictionary.com
  12. overpowering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Overpowering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. overpowering: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. overpowering: Rhymezone
  16. Overpowering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. overpowering: FreeDictionary.org
  18. overpowering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. overpowering: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. overpowering: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  That overpowers; so strong as to be overwhelming.
▸ noun:  The process of something being overpowered.

Similar:
overwhelming, resistless, irresistible, overpowerful, overpowerable, overmastering, overwhelmable, crushing, insuperable, overstrong, more...

Opposite:
underpowered

Phrases:
cool but not overpowering, an overpowering fear, more...

Adjectives:
little, physical, more, own, mighty, first, easy, partial, simple, analogous, nigh

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     neon green,     electric blue,     fiery red, more...



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Similar:
overwhelming, resistless, irresistible, overpowerful, overpowerable, overmastering, overwhelmable, crushing, insuperable, overstrong, more...

Opposite:
underpowered

Phrases:
cool but not overpowering, an overpowering fear, more...

Adjectives:
little, physical, more, own, mighty, first, easy, partial, simple, analogous, nigh

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     neon green,     electric blue,     fiery red, more...



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