To subdue someone by superior force.
"overpower" is a valid word in English and can be used in written English. It is a verb which means to be more powerful than someone or something else or to dominate. Example sentence: The knight had to overpower the giant dragon to save the princess.
But Snow, who has the air of James Bond's Q about him, insisted the new technology would aid the BBC's coverage, not overpower it.
This difference is exactly as it should be; most Scottish distillers don't even want new barrels since the flavours from the wood would overpower the character of their distillate.At the same time, many distillers are coming to see the value of introducing different woods into the maturation process.
There's nothing to do but defeat this sort of evil, which is to say, to overpower it.
He said that were an Abbott government in power it might have sent in the army's special forces to overpower them.(Picture credit: AFP).
The re-indexing then occurs when the computer is relatively idle, which ensures that maintaining the file database does not overpower the system.
Takayuki Kanda of the ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories in Kyoto says that collaborative, humanoid robots should generally be no larger than a six-year-old, a size most adults reckon they could overpower if necessary.
If Mr Ambani is to become the great business leader he wants to be, he needs to let Reliance's progressive side overpower its darker one.
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