Definition of "overmastered" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of overmaster. (verb)

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• "The obstinacy of age had, in short, overmastered its complaisance, and the young woman said no more."
• "The defense has not disputed whether he was the gunman, focusing instead on his mental state and claiming he suffers from a disorder that "overmastered" his will to refrain from criminal acts."
• "Already we have had the syntax overmastered by feeling, affection leaping and soaring over ground through which reason would have traversed most tediously slow."