overpowering

English

Verb

overpowering

1. present participle and gerund of overpower

Adjective

overpowering (comparative more overpowering, superlative most overpowering)

1. That overpowers; so strong as to be overwhelming.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.

   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 12:

     The fact that approximately 40% of spoken language at the cafeteria was not English, suggests that the effect of the near 100% English signage is far from overpowering.

Noun

overpowering (plural overpowerings)

1. The process of something being overpowered.
   • 2012, Andrea Micocci, Moderation and Revolution, page 327:

     Each of these concepts can be used, and is used, to justify the various overpowerings and abuses that are typical of capitalism as we know it, pace the Enlightenment thinkers and any other ideal model.