overwhelm – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: kindle,
elicit,
enkindle,
provoke,
evoke,
raise,
arouse,
fire,
burden,
saddle,
charge,
spread over,
cover,
beat out,
trounce,
shell,
beat,
vanquish,
crush
overwhelm
v.
overpower, defeat; master; crush; stagger; stun, daze; flood, engulf
overwhelm
Verb
1. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
(synonym) overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake
(hypernym) arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
(hyponym) devastate
2. charge someone with too many tasks
(synonym) deluge, flood out
(hypernym) charge, saddle, burden
3. cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"
(synonym) submerge, drown
(hypernym) cover, spread over
4. overcome by superior force
(synonym) overpower, overmaster
(hypernym) beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
(hyponym) steamroller, steamroll
overwhelm
v.
zavalit; ohromit
overwhelm
Czas.
przytłaczać; druzgotać; zasypywać; obezwładniać
Overwhelm
(v. t.)
To project or impend over threateningly.
(v. t.)
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.
(v. t.)
To cause to surround, to cover.
(n.)
The act of overwhelming.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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