as in overwhelmed
to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress
the student was overmastered by the stress of taking the college placement test and broke down crying
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In a world often overwhelmed by heartbreak and division, the story confirms that love has a way of continuing on.
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Knicks fans nearly overwhelmed it before the floats arrived.
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It was held just 22 years after the Great Chicago Fire devastated the city, but Chicago was determined to dominate the world stage.
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The South Florida community — home to the largest Venezuelan diaspora in the United States — is rallying to deliver humanitarian aid to Venezuela after two powerful earthquakes devastated the country Wednesday evening.
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In a rematch of the WNBA’s first-ever game from June 21, 1997, the Sparks overcame a 17-point Liberty lead, all while celebrating the inaugural matchup — and iconic alumni — that changed women’s sports forever.
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Leviatán were arguably considered underdogs in all these matches, but overcame the odds to make the final and set up a rematch against Paper Rex.
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Often the materials are crushed, milled, then reused directly on-site at the job where they were removed.
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But most of those indigenous sites are inaccessible to the public, or they have been buried and crushed under the foundations of new skyscrapers and development.
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Your structure sorts the whole world into two boxes, oppressor and oppressed.
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The album is both plea, polemic and protest, but its argument — that oppressed and working people deserve rights and dignity, and that those things have historically been won through rebellion and revolution — is hardly radical.
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“Overmastered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overmastered. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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