overmaster
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It was a welcome reminder that even in the rankly toxic House of Representatives, sometimes the personal transcends the ideological and that civility and empathy can overmaster appearances.
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2012
Often these are united in the same individual; or, rather, the individual appears in the first rôle, until the second comes to overmaster it.
From The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country by Ernest Thompson Seton
Her form was shaken with emotion so strong as to almost overmaster her.
From Out of a Labyrinth by Lawrence L. Lynch
The issue he confronted, stripped of all its distractions, was simply whether his love were potent enough to overmaster his pride and bring it to its knees.
From The Wall Between by Sara Ware Bassett
And there was another thing: however much he might overmaster Nature sufficiently to be able to proceed without rest, the horse could not do so.
From In the Day of Adversity by John Bloundelle-Burton
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