overwield

present singular third person overwields · participle present overwielding · participle past overwielded · past overwielded

1. transitiveTo wield over or in excess; overpower

   His persuasive power was overwielded, and overshadowed by his intensity, which made him seem to them on the verge of spooky.

   2016, T. Wells, Wild Man

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   When V and N (either in en as a wordending, or the pronoun en) come together, the v often overwields the n which in its new form overwields the v that becomes b.

   1886, William Barnes, A Glossary of the Dorset Dialect

   This was because many of them believed that the Emir had overwielded his power against his real and imagined enemies and therefore stepped on many people's toes.

   2009, Yusuf Saad Omoiya, The Origin and British Colonial Impact on the Cosmopolitan Community of Ilorin in the 20th Century