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Definition: Overpowered |
OverpoweredAdjective1. Rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something; "a desk flooded with applications"; "felt inundated with work"; "too much overcome to notice"; "a man engulfed by fear"; "swamped by work". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "overpowered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: OverpoweredSynonyms: engulfed (adj), flooded (adj), inundated (adj), overcome (adj), overwhelmed (adj), swamped (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Overpowered |
| English words defined with "overpowered": subdued. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "overpowered": Overpower. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You were overpowered by the extravagance of sound, the sheer weight of volume (Scott Joplin; writing credit: Christopher Knopf) | |
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 | Warrens Brigade overpowered by Longstreets advance. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | England's nightmare. The Great Britain Gulliver overpowered and made helpless by French pygmies while asleep. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Overpowered by the sky" by Nathan Sudds Commentary: "Powerlines overhead in a field, north Ajax, Ontario, Canada - scenes like this cause me to be amazed by God's creation :) Hope someone can use it, resolution isn't as good as I would have liked <br> <br>Shot on a Canon S10 digital cam (2.0" |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Do not be overpowered by such a little tribute of admiration |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Cambodia | In April a mob overpowered police and beat two alleged robbers in police custody to death. (references) |
Sri Lanka | The HRC stated that the police were guilty of "grave dereliction of duty," and it did not believe that the mobs could have overpowered the police present. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Overpowered" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 55.84% of the time. "Overpowered" is used about 77 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 55.84% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 44.16% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 77 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "overpowered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 击败 (Defeated, Defeating, Outplay, Overpower, Overpowering). (various references) | |
German | niedergekämpft, überwältigte (overcame, overmastered, overwhelmed). (various references) | |
Manx | goit er niart. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | overpowereday.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Overpowered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: overpowdered. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "overpowered" (pronounced ō'verpou"erd) |
| 5 | -er p ou" er d | underpowered. |
| 4 | -p ou" er d | empowered, powered. |
| 3 | -ou" er d | coward, devoured, flowered, glowered, scoured, showered, soured, towered. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-o-o-p-r-r-v-w" | |
-2 letters: overpower, repowered. | |
-3 letters: overdoer, overdrew, overrode, overword, overwore, powderer, reproved. | |
-4 letters: powered, redrove, repower, reprove, revered. | |
-5 letters: deeper, dorper, drover, overdo, overed, peered, peeved, poorer, powder, proved, prover, prower, redrew, reeved, revere, reword, rewove, veered, weeder, weeper, weever. | |
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