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# overpower

«overpower» in Mova's school dictionary: **To beat someone by being stronger, so they cannot fight back** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (overpower, overpowers, overpowered, overpowering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To beat someone by being stronger, so they cannot fight back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overpower/#m1)

2) (of a feeling, smell or taste) To be so strong that it takes over: "The smell overpowered us." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overpower/#m2)

3) (overpowering, adjective) Very strong, too strong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overpower/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, guards overpower a thief or a hero overpowers a monster. In cooking, a strong flavour like garlic can overpower the others. In everyday life an overpowering smell is too strong to bear. In games "overpowered" (slang "OP") means a character or item is too strong to be fair.

### examples

- The guards overpowered the robber and took the bag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overpower/#x1)
- The smell of fish overpowered the whole kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overpower/#x2)
- Too much chilli will overpower the taste of the soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overpower/#x3)
- She was overpowered by sleepiness and dropped her book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overpower/#x4)
- The perfume in the shop was overpowering. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overpower/#x5)
- That sword is so overpowered that the game is too easy (slang: it's OP). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overpower/#x6)
- How close the air felt in that room; the heat overpowered him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overpower/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: overpowered, overpowering. In gamer slang "OP" stands for "overpowered". Not the same as "empower" (to give someone power).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «overpower» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overpower/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.