Definition of "overmasters" [overmasters]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overmaster. (verb)

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• "So when he is brought suddenly to the strong light of the sun the effulgence overmasters him, and he is blind as a bat."
• "Love overmasters the thoughts of his youth, and he becomes in sober reality the monster that he was sometimes in sleep."
• "The ruin of oligarchy is the ruin of democracy; the same disease magnified and intensified by liberty overmasters democracy — the truth being that the excessive increase of anything often causes a reaction in the opposite direction; and this is the case not only in the seasons and in vegetable and animal life, but above all in forms of government."