Definition of Overwhelm

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Overwhelm

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.

The act of overwhelming.

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Overwhelm Quotations

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
Ogden Nash

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Desmond Tutu

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
Emile Zola

One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.
Charles Sturt

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
Jane Smiley

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
Idries Shah

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.
Jeff Flake

Overwhelm Translations

overwhelm in Dutch is bedelven, overstelpen, verpletteren
overwhelm in Latin is opprimo oppressi oppressum
overwhelm in Portuguese is oprima

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