MEANING
To gain overwhelming control over a person or something opposed.
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Words that belong together
- overmaster fear
- an impulse overmasters someone
On the page
An impulse overmastered the caution he had rehearsed.
She tried to overmaster her fear before touching the latch.
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Word forms
- Base
- overmaster
- Past tense
- overmastered
- Past participle
- overmastered
- Present participle
- overmastering
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- overmaster
- Present continuous
- am/is/are overmastering
- Present perfect
- have/has overmastered
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been overmastering
- Past
- overmastered
- Past continuous
- was/were overmastering
- Past perfect
- had overmastered
- Past perfect continuous
- had been overmastering
- Future
- will overmaster
- Future continuous
- will be overmastering
- Future perfect
- will have overmastered
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been overmastering
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: overmaster; overmasters; overmastered; overmastered; overmastering Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: overmasters.
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