overmastering

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of overmaster

comparative more overmastering · superlative most overmastering

1. Which overmasters; dominating, oppressive, conquering.

   Their overmastering fear of witchcraft

   1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 20

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   Yet from my very earliest consciousness I sensed with savage unswerving certainty that other people were not seized by the same rapacious greed, insatiable hunger, overmastering desire, shivering lust and terrible, hurting need that had me in its grip almost every hour of every day.

   2010, Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles