Overwhelming is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OVERWHELMING in dictionary:

VERB:
• 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
NOUN:
• the act of inflicting a crushing defeat
• the act of overwhelming
ADJECTIVE:
• crushing
• Overpowering; irresistible.
• so strong as to be irresistible
• very intense
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• tending or serving to overwhelm; extreme, great

Words related to OVERWHELMING

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Words that contain OVERWHELMING

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How to use OVERWHELMING in a sentence

• A general election followed, which sent up an overwhelming majority of Liberal members, while many of the leading members of the last Parliament lost their places.
• In his overwhelming sorrow, he remained with them nearly a quarter of an hour, and spoke to them again.
• Every one stops a way through which the overwhelming power of government has oppressed the weak individual citizen, and may do so again if the way be opened.
• Always imbued with a spirit of lofty patriotism, Morse never failed, even in the midst of overwhelming cares, to give voice to warnings which he considered necessary.
• I find it more difficult to bear up with the overwhelming praise that is poured out without measure, than with the trials of my former life.
• I was animated by the honorable motive of saving my employers from loss and by the overwhelming motive of my own passion.
• Half an hour later he was dressed and on his way downstairs, conscious only of an overwhelming desire to see Mr.
• Before his marriage to Terry Sheehan his little red address book had been overwhelming proof against the theory that nobody loves a fat man.
• In those days it looked as though it must be an overwhelming storm.
• Even the possibility of his own innocence was subordinated to an overwhelming yearning for the old house and the old life.
• For a suddenly conceived strategical object he deliberately exposed the heads of his columns to what with almost any other enemy would have been an overwhelming superiority.
• He had dared to come to this far country, establish himself on a ranch, and seek to win out in the face of overwhelming odds.
• The preponderance of the Celtic element in the Catholics of Ulster must be overwhelming.
• If I could do one thing I could make the victory for the home overwhelming.
• The evidence against the young men was overwhelming, and we committed them for trial.
• But that very multiplicity of proof which ought to make reply overwhelming makes reply impossible.
• God grant it be not long delayed, but it can only come when the enemy is entirely overthrown and the victory is overwhelming and complete.
• My most Protestant relatives thought my duty in the matter overwhelming, and with all my clinging of heart to the moor home I felt myself that it was so.
• That was the overwhelming feature of life, a feature which dwarfed every other circumstance much as grimly gigantic Windsor Castle dominates the puny town beneath its walls.
• The province of Quebec declared itself against the measure by an overwhelming vote.
• Then the Germans attacked this point in overwhelming numbers.
• But in your absence the tide of melancholy rushed in again, and did its worst mischief by overwhelming my reason.
• That flood will pass away, Banu answered, before the great and overwhelming flood arises.
• If this were done, and the colored gunners did not flee before the overwhelming numbers, he might unite his forces by another charge.
• We need the greater mind to see the links in the overwhelming mass of science, in the mazes of human action and history.
• I could see a new-born and overwhelming comprehension of the situation in his face as he put his head in at the door and beckoned to Isabel.
• The Tartars surprised the Russian army near Moscow, and overwhelming them with numbers, two to one, trampled them beneath their horses.
• On the 8th of September, 1805, the armies of Austria and Russia were on the march for France, and the Austrian troops, in overwhelming numbers, invaded Bavaria.
• He entered a narrow gallery, where he paused, overcome by some sudden and overwhelming emotion.
• All these events had come upon Elizabeth with overwhelming suddenness.
• But his blood was hot and his anger and bitterness overwhelming.

Similar words containing OVERWHELM without suffix ing

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