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

Only thus should Truth be followed, with an interest great enough to overmaster all fears as to whither she may lead and what she may disclose.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 by Various

Once more that unaccountable feeling of irritation seemed to overmaster her, the same sense of wrath and of injustice which had assailed her when she first spoke to him.

From Petticoat Rule by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Sooner or later their lies outwit them and overmaster them, for whenever people believe a liar he is forced to act as if he had spoken the truth.

From The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story by Howells, William Dean

And how shall you, a single man, overmaster him?

From Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith