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Meaning overwhelm meaning

What does overwhelm mean?
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overwhelm Verb

— If you are overwhelmed by a feeling, you feel it very strongly, and you cannot deal with it. — If a problem overwhelms you, it's too difficult for you to solve or deal with. — If one army overwhelms another, they completely defeat them. The team was able to overwhelm their opponents and win first place

overwhelm

— verb charge someone with too many tasks — verb (= overcome) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli — verb (= overpower) overcome by superior force — verb (= drown) cover completely or make imperceptible I was drowned in work The noise drowned out her speech

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Topics overwhelm topics

What do people use overwhelm to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict

War
Social behavior Conflict War

Defeat

Conjugation overwhelm conjugation

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overwhelm · verb

Examples overwhelm examples

How do I use overwhelm in a sentence?

Simple sentences

We don't want to overwhelm Tom.
We don't want to overwhelm them.

Movie subtitles

If fear alone were enough to overwhelm people, there would never be another war.
You overwhelm me, milady.
No matter how hard I try, I just can't let my emotion overwhelm my senses.
You will assault the garrison, overwhelm it and hold until relieved.
Foul deeds will rise, though all the earth overwhelm them, to men's eyes.
Violent emotions overwhelm them.
Zaroff, I think you ought to know the sea has broken through and is about to overwhelm us here.
It will overwhelm you and never abandon you.
You overwhelm me. It's true.
Even when you're tender, you overwhelm me.
Overwhelm and devastate. That's the way to get power and to hold it.
Lovers have a drive to overwhelm one another.
But the way we are, alike as two drops of water. how could we ever overwhelm or tear each other to pieces?
Can such things be and overwhelm us like a summer's cloud without our special wonder?
You overwhelm me. Your generosity flaws me.
We overwhelm the enemy. - I need a volunteer.
A Spanish convoy would overwhelm you.
Ah, your highness, you overwhelm me.
You almost overwhelm me.
You will assault the garrison, overwhelm it and hold until relieved. Hold until relieved.
Then they overwhelm the Sioux and we save the lieutenant.
Let's not overwhelm him with family. Not the first date, huh?
The Esbartos of the region would overwhelm us.
We overwhelm the enemy.
We can overwhelm all difficulties together.
Violent emotions overwhelm them, destroy them.
The Front Command has decided to attack the enemy with such great force so that overwhelm and shatter him to the very foundations.
Don't overwhelm the giver.
Forces of evil may seem to overwhelm us and be triumphant, but goodness will prevail, for it is written in the Book of Revelation.
You overwhelm me, your Eminence.
I can see quite clearly now that you plan to overwhelm mankind with good deeds.
I didn't want to overwhelm our guest on his first night.
We will overwhelm them to glorious victory!

News and current affairs

Its costs overwhelm workplace health-insurance schemes.
Similarities between Sweden then and major developing economies recently are reminders that in a world of capital mobility financial crises can overwhelm all kinds of countries, regardless of their structural features.
For many years, experts have been warning that such storms would overwhelm the city's antiquated urban infrastructure.
The classes also include basic education about our moods, and several exercises from cognitive therapy that show the links between thinking and feeling and how participants can best look after themselves when a crisis threatens to overwhelm them.
If holders of Portuguese bonds are alarmed by a future Greek default, the ECB will simply increase its bond buying; with no limit to its buying power, it will easily overwhelm any selling pressure.
As was the case then, public outrage today is at a level that might well overwhelm the lobbying efforts of entrenched interests.
In the meantime, as the debate continues, my contributions help to ensure that the money spent by those trying to reelect President Bush doesn't overwhelm the process.
Crass tribalism now threatens to overwhelm all that unites us in our common care for our children, our planet, and our future.
We may have moments of fear in the days ahead, but we must never let despair overwhelm us.
A third widespread challenge that awaits emerging leaders is the inescapable reality that citizens' demands increasingly overwhelm the capacity to satisfy them.
Highly motivated minorities can and do overwhelm the general interests of majorities who are not seized with an issue.
As the boom turned to bust, the losses threatened to overwhelm the capacity of the Spanish state, and the problem became European, because it threatened the very survival of the euro.
With a long-term strategic vision, the EU could overwhelm and ultimately undermine Putin's short-term successes.
Strategic constraints would almost certainly overwhelm enforcement.
But eventually central banks must pull the plug. Otherwise they will end up in intensive care themselves as credit losses overwhelm their balance sheets.
Too large a crisis - or too many crises at once - threatens to overwhelm the EU's capacity to respond, ultimately leading to breakdown.
But once the political franchise was enlarged, the working class got organized, and mass politics became the norm, domestic economic objectives began to compete with (and overwhelm) external rules and constraints.
The great unanswered question is how long Putin will be able to rely on nationalist kitsch to overwhelm Russians' rational calculation of their interests.
To discover Poland is to find a country that offers a rich cultural heritage, a vibrant civic life, and industrious, creative people who can overwhelm guests with their hospitality.
If only such practices were used to tackle the vast majority of the problems that overwhelm Somalia.
Swelling migration pressures threaten to overwhelm any pretense at border controls.
Their deaths should challenge us to make sure that Paris, the city of light, will help to banish the darkness that threatens to overwhelm the century ahead.

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