overwhelm

Plural: overwhelms

Verb

• overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
• charge someone with too many tasks
• cover completely or make imperceptible
• overcome by superior force
• To engulf, surge over and submerge.
• To overpower, crush.
• To overpower emotionally.
• To cause to surround, to cover.

Noun

• The state or condition of being overwhelmed.

Examples

• He was overwhelmed with guilt.
• In December 1939 the Soviet Union attacked Finland with overwhelming force.
• Joy overwhelmed her when she realized that she had won a million dollars.
• The dinghy was overwhelmed by the great wave.

Synonyms

deluge, drown, flood out, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overtake, submerge, sweep over, whelm, grip, ravish, swamp

Antonyms

underwhelm

Related Words

too many balls in the air, whelm