Synonyms for overpowering
over·pow·er·ing

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1. overpowering, overwhelmingadjective

   so strong as to be irresistible

   "an overpowering need for solitude"; "the temptation to despair may become overwhelming"; "an overwhelming majority"

   Synonyms:
   overwhelming, consuming

   Antonyms:
   resistible

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1. overpoweringadjective

   Synonyms:
   overwhelming, conquering, irresistible, overmastering

2. overpoweringnoun

   Synonyms:
   vanquishment, conquering, defeat, subjugation, overthrow

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1. Ilene Graff:

   Auditions? Jobs? Hustling? All take second position to the helpless human you brought into the world. And that overpowering love is like no other. 'Mr. Belvedere’ was a half-hour, 4-camera comedy performed before a live studio audience, which meant we worked reasonable hours.

2. Frazier Glenn Cross:

   I've never felt such exhilaration and overpowering joy.

3. Donald Trump:

   Every death is a horror -- but if you look at a real catastrophe, like Katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here with, really, a storm that was just totally overpowering -- nobody has ever seen anything like this, everybody around this table and everybody watching can really be very proud of what's taken place in Puerto Rico.

4. Kate Carnell:

   Do we feel like, 'okay, everything's okay now?' We don't. We feel like he's been given ... six months to deliver and I don't think there is a huge, overpowering confidence that that's going to happen.

5. Puerto Ricans.Yet Trump:

   Every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like (Hurricane) Katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here with, really, a storm that was just totally overpowering -- nobody has ever seen anything like this.