Definition of overwhelm

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Overwhelm (n.) The act of overwhelming.

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Eruption :: Eruption (n.) The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion..
Overflow :: Overflow (v. t.) To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm..
Overwhelming :: Overwhelming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overwhel.
Break :: Break (v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking..
Flush :: Flush (v. t.) To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer..
Drown :: Drown (v. t.) To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
Indrench :: Indrench (v. t.) To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown.
Overwhelming :: Overwhelming (a.) Overpowering; irresistible.
Plunge :: Plunge (n.) Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties..
Deluge :: Deluge (v. t.) To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe..
Deluge :: Deluge (v. t.) To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
Crushing :: Crushing (a.) That crushes; overwhelming.
Sink :: Sink (v. i.) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease..
Overwhelm :: Overwhelm (n.) The act of overwhelming.
Whelm :: Whelm (v. t.) To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.
Vituperate :: Vituperate (v. t.) To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.
Ingulf :: Ingulf (v. t.) To swallow up or overwhelm in, or as in, a gulf; to cast into a gulf. See Engulf..
Overwhelm :: Overwhelm (v. t.) To project or impend over threateningly.
Nightmare :: Nightmare (n.) Hence, any overwhelming, oppressive, or stupefying influence..
Deluge :: Deluge (n.) Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction..
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