adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
overpowering (= very strong )
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The smell of disinfectant was overpowering.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an overpowering smell
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Her loneliness was overpowering .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An overpowering smell of Freesia perfume hung around her like a cloud.
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As it was, she was Désirée without that inimitable charm, that overpowering charisma.
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But Hector, with his booming laugh, was so large and overpowering that he made it worse.
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How does a son live his own life in the shadow of an overpowering father who is also a worldwide star?
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Prince's music makes me think of Des Esseintes's symphony of perfumes: exquisite, heady, overpowering , slightly nauseous.
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The smell is human, raw, and overpowering .
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They were in plain clothes and, in his opinion, drunk, arrogant and overpowering .