different between overpowering vs staggering

English

overpowering

overpowering (comparative more overpowering, superlative most overpowering)

staggering

staggering (comparative more staggering, superlative most staggering)

staggering (plural staggerings)

The motion of one who staggers.
- 1837, Memoirs of Mirabeau (in The Westminster Review, volume 26, page 436)
  There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings […]
That which staggers something or somebody.
- 1738, Ebenezer Erskine, The Annals of Redeeming Love
  But these doubts, and fears, and staggerings, although they may be in the believer, yet they are not in his faith; these things argue the infirmity of his faith, indeed; but under all this, faith is fighting for the victory […]
In animation, the repetition of a sequence of frames to show struggling effort

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