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- verb Present participle of
overmaster . - adjective Which
overmasters ;dominating ,oppressive ,conquering .
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Examples
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It may not fan sufficiently to make the desire overmastering, but in so far as it fans at all, that far is it temptation.
Chapter 26 2010
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For instance, what would happen tomorrow if one hundred thousand tramps should become suddenly inspired with an overmastering desire for work?
THE TRAMP 2010
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To locate and copy manuscripts that contained the voices of the vanished past in all their unsurpassed eloquence became, for some scholars, an overmastering obsession.
How the Secular World Began Eric Ormsby 2011
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Her dumb lips could not articulate her overmastering consciousness of kind.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010
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And the traditions, more especially, bear heavily upon the individual, overmastering his natural expression of the love instinct and forcing him to an artificial expression of that love instinct.
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"Gee, Dad, thanks!" she bubbled, delight overmastering her sullen veneer.
Robert Koehler: 20,000 Days Robert Koehler 2011
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"Gee, Dad, thanks!" she bubbled, delight overmastering her sullen veneer.
Robert Koehler: 20,000 Days Robert Koehler 2011
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"Gee, Dad, thanks!" she bubbled, delight overmastering her sullen veneer.
Robert Koehler: 20,000 Days Robert Koehler 2011
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"Gee, Dad, thanks!" she bubbled, delight overmastering her sullen veneer.
Robert Koehler: 20,000 Days Robert Koehler 2011
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It was at that moment that Edna felt her journalistic ambition departing from her, and was aware of an overmastering desire to be somewhere else.
Amateur Night 2010
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