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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overmaster .
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Examples
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The obstinacy of age had, in short, overmastered its complaisance, and the young woman said no more.
A Changed Man 2006
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The obstinacy of age had, in short, overmastered its complaisance, and the young woman said no more.
Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1892
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The obstinacy of age had, in short, overmastered its complaisance, and the young woman said no more.
A Changed Man; and other tales Thomas Hardy 1884
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The defense has not disputed whether he was the gunman, focusing instead on his mental state and claiming he suffers from a disorder that "overmastered" his will to refrain from criminal acts.
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The defense has not disputed whether he was the gunman, focusing instead on his mental state and claiming he suffers from a disorder that "overmastered" his will to refrain from criminal acts.
KCTV5.com - News 2008
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The defense has not disputed whether he was the gunman, focusing instead on his mental state and claiming he suffers from a disorder that "overmastered" his will to refrain from criminal acts.
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If only broccoli ran wild and had to be tracked down and overmastered.
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If only broccoli ran wild and had to be tracked down and overmastered.
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And when her answering look of happiness came to him -- a sudden dimness in her straight gray eyes -- he was overmastered by the knowledge that he must say something or burst.
CHAPTER XV 2010
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Already we have had the syntax overmastered by feeling, affection leaping and soaring over ground through which reason would have traversed most tediously slow.
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