Usually means: Exert superior strength or influence.
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  1. overpower: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overpower: Merriam-Webster
  3. overpower: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overpower: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overpower: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overpower: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overpower, overpower: Wordnik
  8. overpower: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overpower: Wiktionary
  10. overpower: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overpower: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. overpower: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Overpower, overpower: Dictionary.com
  14. overpower (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. overpower: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. OverPower, Overpower: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Overpower: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. overpower: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. overpower: Rhymezone
  20. overpower: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. overpower: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. overpower: FreeDictionary.org
  23. overpower: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. overpower: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overpower)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To subdue someone by superior force.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to subdue.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To render imperceptible by means of greater strength, intensity, etc.
▸ verb:  (video games, transitive) To make excessively powerful.

Similar:
overmaster, overcome, overwhelm, overtake, whelm, sweep over, compel, overquell, overput, crush, more...

Opposite:
underpower, underwhelm, undermatch, underperform

Types:
brute force, surprise attack, sneak attack, sucker punch, sneaky attack, more...

Phrases:
to overpower, more...

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Similar:
overmaster, overcome, overwhelm, overtake, whelm, sweep over, compel, overquell, overput, crush, more...

Opposite:
underpower, underwhelm, undermatch, underperform

Types:
brute force, surprise attack, sneak attack, sucker punch, sneaky attack, more...

Phrases:
to overpower, more...

Colors:
    red,     black,     dark purple,     crimson,     maroon, more...



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