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overwhelmed

 
Adjective overwhelmed has 1 sense
  1. flooded, inundated, overcome, overpowered, overwhelmed, swamped, engulfed - rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something; "a desk flooded with applications"; "felt inundated with work"; "too much overcome to notice"; "a man engulfed by fear"; "swamped by work"
    Antonym: powerful (indirect, via powerless)
Verb overwhelm has 4 senses
  1. overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake - overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
    --1 is one way to arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s somebody
  2. overwhelm, deluge, flood out - charge someone with too many tasks
    --2 is one way to charge, saddle, burden
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Somebody ----s somebody with something
  3. submerge, drown, overwhelm - cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"
    --3 is one way to cover, spread over
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  4. overpower, overmaster, overwhelm - overcome by superior force
    --4 is one way to beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
    Sample sentence:
    The fighter managed to overwhelm his opponent
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