overmaster

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Every time he shuts his eyes, some vision of the school at Schulpforta overmasters him: vermilion flags, muscular horses, gleaming laboratories.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Often at a season of sore bereavement some one poignant thought or reflection takes possession of the mind, and, for the time, overmasters every other.

From Memories of Bethany by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)

In conclusion, I ask, oppressed by a consciousness which almost overmasters me—which renders me unfit to do any thing but feel—will you not settle this question here?

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)

For customs adopted by each generation from the last without thought or inquiry, imply a tendency to imitate which overmasters critical and sceptical tendencies: so maintaining habits for which no reasons can be given.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

As fiction, it suffers from the Rugby "earnestness" which overmasters in it any purely artistic impulse, while infusing a certain fire and unity of its own.

From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.