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Subdued by superior force.
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Rippling back abashed before the ominous silences / Like the swift turns and starts of an overpowered fencer / Who sees before him Horror / Behind him darkness, / Shadow.
It is true that during two world wars the belligerents violated many rules of warfare which had been generally accepted in some earlier periods of history, but the fundamental purpose remained unchanged—to impose the victor’s will on an overpowered enemy.
Nani [pseudonym] identified four kinds of marriages among government officials. […] A second is that of the “overpowered husband” whose wife is dominant, which Nani considers funny because such husbands tend to behave awkwardly in the face of wifely control.
Adjective
Overly powerful.
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The engine seemed overpowered for such a small car.
Players complained that some of the characters in the game were overpowered and hard to defeat.
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Are the 1959 cars put out by the Big 3 overpowered, oversized, overjuiced, over-elaborate, gas-guzzling dinosaurs? […] The motion reads “Resolved That the Big 3’s 1959 Car Models are engineering monstrosities”.