The first woman of color to win the Academy Award for Best Actress spoke out today about the Oscar diversity controversy. Halle Berry, who won her statuette in 2002 for playing the widow of an executed inmate in Monsterâs Ball, spoke out at the 2016 Makers Conference, a leadership confab near LA.
overpower. 1  to overcome, master, or subdue by superior force: to overpower a maniac. 2  to overcome or overwhelm in feeling; affect or impress excessively: overpowered with confusion and desire. 3  to gain mastery over the bodily powers or mental faculties of: a strong drink that quickly overpowered him.
The noun DOMINANCE has 4 senses: 1. superior development of one side of the body. 2. the state that exists when one person or group has power over another. 3. the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not.4. the power or right to give orders or make decisions. Familiarity information: DOMINANCE used as a noun is uncommon.Dictionary entry details.. the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not. 4. the power or right to give orders or make decisions. Familiarity information: DOMINANCE used as a noun is uncommon. Dictionary entry details.