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[ verb ] overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

Used in print

(Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)

Sometimes a burst of aggressiveness will sweep_over a man - or his wife - because he or she feels age creeping_up .

(T. C. McClary, "The Flooded Desert," Argosy,...)

A terrible , numbing sense of futility swept_over him .

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