Word Meanings - OVERWHELM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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. The sea overwhelmed their enemies.

Additional info about word: OVERWHELM

1. 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. The sea overwhelmed their enemies. Ps. lxxviii. 53. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. Ps. lv. 5. Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them. Shak. Gaza yet stands; but all her sons are fallen, All in a moment overwhelmed and fallen. Milton. 2. To project or impend over threateningly. His louering brows o'erwhelming his fair sight. Shak. 3. To cause to surround, to cover. Papin.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OVERWHELM)

• Immerse
• Dip
• plunge
• sink
• soak
• steep
• macerate
• duck
• submerge
• drown
• inundate
• douse
• overwhelm
• Inundate
• Overflow
• deluge
• flood
• Plunge
• dive
• immerse
• precipitate
• thrust under
• pitch headlong
• Stun
• Confound
• bewilder
• dumbfounder
• astonish
• stupefy
• overpower
• electrify
• Submerge
• Drown
• fink

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of OVERWHELM)

• Air
• dry
• ventilate
• fan
• sun
• aridity
• exsiccate

Related words: (words related to OVERWHELM)

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  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• UNDERDOLVEN
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• UNDERPROP
  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
• UNDERNIME
  1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
• ARIDITY
  1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
• ASTONISH
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  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
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  Wildcat insurance.
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  To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
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  One who plunders or pillages.
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  A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.