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Meanings of overwhelm in English
Portuguese
superar pela força Catalan
aclaparar Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli.
Synonyms
Examples for "drown"
Examples for "drown"
1
Your body needs water to live, but water can also drown you.
2
It's easy for active investors to drown in a sea of misinformation.
3
It takes about eight hours to drown the way they work it.
4
Our region will drown in a conflict whose outcome cannot be foreseen.
5
I think that the Scientology intention was to drown me in information.
1
That, she knew, would submerge low-lying zones, with frightening implications for residents.
2
Would do their utmost to overwhelm, to submerge her, were she weak.
3
Reluctantly, but yielding to his better judgment, McClure gave orders to submerge.
4
The car was swept downstream and submerged under water, the report said.
5
Floods also hit cultivation in Bangladesh, farmers said, submerging tracts of land.
Usage of overwhelm in English
1
However, their size and duration can overwhelm available public and private resources.
2
A big outbreak would overwhelm poorly funded health systems across the region.
3
That implies U.S. supply is unlikely to overwhelm global markets, Saucer said.
4
I overwhelm the bureaucrats with legal papers and easily win the case.
5
But there are fears that could balloon and overwhelm shaky health services.
6
Your words, sir-Duvel raised his voice to overwhelm Lambert's nascent protest.
7
Let the whole earth fall down and overwhelm me in its ruins.
8
His intervals expose him to the worst people; his relapses overwhelm me.
9
It was just that the past always seemed to overwhelm the present.
10
For a moment his rage toward Hildie Kramer threatened to overwhelm him.
11
Such thoughts are almost too wonderful for me; they overwhelm my soul.
12
International flows of capital are so big they can overwhelm individual governments.
13
Would that his father's so-called Dragonrealm would fully overwhelm the decaying world.
14
Will that supply overwhelm demand, that is a big unknown, Caggiano said.
15
Her panic returned, threatening to overwhelm her, but she forced it down.
16
It's enough data to overwhelm the memory chip of any first-generation smartphone.
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Overwhelm through the time
Overwhelm across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common