overwield

Verb

overwield (third-person singular simple present overwields, present participle overwielding, simple past and past participle overwielded)

1. (transitive) To wield over or in excess; overpower
   • When V and N (either in en as a wordending, or the pronoun en) come together, the v often overwields the n which in its new form overwields the v that becomes b.1886, William Barnes, A Glossary of the Dorset Dialect
   • This was because many of them believed that the Emir had overwielded his power against his real and imagined enemies and therefore stepped on many people's toes.2009, Yusuf Saad Omoiya, The Origin and British Colonial Impact on the Cosmopolitan Community of Ilorin in the 20th Century