Overwhelm is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OVERWHELM in dictionary:

VERB:
• to crush with something strong or heavy
• bury or drown beneath a huge mass of something, especially water
• give too much of something to; inundate
• have a strong emotional effect on
• defeat completely
• be too strong for; overpower
• overpower, esp emotionally
• To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly.
• To project or impend over threateningly.
• To cause to surround, to cover.
• overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
• charge someone with too many tasks
• cover completely or make imperceptible
• overcome by superior force
NOUN:
• The act of overwhelming.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• upset, overthrow

Words related to OVERWHELM

begulf12 overwhelmed23 overwhelming24 overwhelms21

Words that contain OVERWHELM

overwhelms21 overwhelmed23 overwhelming24 overwhelmings25 overwhelmingly29

How to use OVERWHELM in a sentence

• The tide of conflict which during the dark days of midsummer threatened to overwhelm the allied forces has been turned into glorious victory.
• The Americans may not have been unconquerable, but English troops were not numerous enough to overwhelm them in their scattered settlements.
• They made a brief stand upon the ramparts and at the gates in a vain and fruitless struggle against the tide of victory which they soon perceived must fully overwhelm them.
• He dashed the door open and sprang out, prepared to overwhelm the driver with reproaches.
• I sent word to Pownall, our Governor, that we must be extremely cautious in respect to the French, but he thinks the army of General Abercrombie will overwhelm everything.
• The story is well known how their incessant warfare and restless existence saved Europe from the merciless hordes which threatened to overwhelm her.
• They proposed to overwhelm the French by force of arms and compel them to put back their king upon his throne.
• Michelangelo appears to have anticipated the catastrophe which was about to overwhelm his patron.
• He came out of his silence at last with a movement so sudden that it was as if he flung aside some weight that threatened to overwhelm him.
• Yet I would not overwhelm the authors with the whole load of infamy, of which part, perhaps the greater part, ought to fall upon their patrons.
• Ben Saoud also receives a subsidy from the British, who must continue to pay it, because otherwise ben Saoud will attack Hussein and overwhelm him.
• The discovery rushed out from its ambush to overwhelm.
• But he could not think of anything to overwhelm her with just at that moment, and so he could only stride on in helpless, angry silence.
• One day an emancipation proclamation went forth, from a king who had come to believe in the unseen God who loved justice, and would overwhelm oppression and wrong.
• Antony was advised that the Parthians had occupied the easier route, expecting that he would follow it, and intended to overwhelm him with their cavalry in the plains.
• Difficulties surround and threaten to overwhelm me.
• Enough remains to overwhelm us with astonishment, and furnish materials for the study of years.
• He got little satisfaction there, and found a whole sea of troubles to overwhelm him on his return.
• When the assailants appeared likely to overwhelm him, he abandoned one of his two guns, and hastened on, leaving three men lying under them apparently wounded, and unable to move.
• Her thronging millions overwhelm you on every festive day or joyous occasion.
• Spare us the string of examples that would overwhelm us utterly.
• The Serb peoples, divided into many small rival principalities, fought each other continuously, though the enemy which was to overwhelm them all was already advancing upon them.
• The time is short, yea, our time to-day is more empty than the events which surprise us every day, every night, and overwhelm us like an avalanche of snow and ice from the Alps.
• It seemed as if she were addressing herself, warning herself, and fighting down a weakness which was threatening to overwhelm her.
• When they found us closing in upon their flanks, they concluded we were far superior in numbers, and certain to overwhelm them.
• Before them stretched the wide sweep of water, the ocean rising slowly but surely to overwhelm them.
• By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control, the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm.
• That dreadful sobbing threatened to overwhelm her again, but she fought it down.
• One desperate dash, and they would overwhelm the crippled little Navy party.
• The sad splendour with which certain memories of mine overwhelm me, shows me that it is possible.
• Was it that he could not trust himself to words? But in that brief time, the thoughts which passed through his mind were such as to overwhelm him.

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