Word Finder - overwhelming

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To engulf, surge over and submerge.

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The dinghy was overwhelmed by the great wave.

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• swamp

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To overpower, crush.

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In December 1939 the Soviet Union attacked Finland with overwhelming force.

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To overpower emotionally.

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He was overwhelmed with guilt.

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To cause to surround, to cover.

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A situation of being overwhelmed.

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Overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong.

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Very great or intense.

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Extreme.

Harding by an overwhelming vote.

It was still an overwhelming idea.

It's just so overwhelming I don't know how else to react.

Pressed by overwhelming forces, the Italians, after a violent combat, began to give way.

There was an overwhelming stench in the room.

It grew even more overwhelming after the broadcast of the eleven o'clock news.

So long as he counselled submission to the overwhelming power of Rome the people complied, but when he spoke of obedience to Florus he was compelled to fly.

To be honest, thinking about the responsibility of making those decisions was overwhelming at times.

It may be that in particular cases particular modes of cultivation disfavour the host; or that the soil, climate or seasons do so; but overwhelming evidence exists to show that the principal causes of epidemics reside in circumstances which favor the spread, nutrition and reproduction of the pest, and the lesson to be learnt is, that precautions against the establishment of such favoring conditions must be sought.

It seemed loud, overwhelming, and she realized she was still close to passing out.

What was overwhelming him?

On the other hand, an overwhelming and increasing majority of those who have studied the natural conditions under which petroleum occurs are of opinion that it is of organic origin.

No policy could have been less far-sighted; for Charles V., joint heir to Austria, Burgundy, Castile and Aragon, the future overwhelming rival of France, was already born.

This cession was based on political motives, which Bonaparte judged to be of overwhelming force; and he now decided to support the Directors and overthrow the moderates.

His presence was overwhelming, and her body reacted with both terror and lust so strong it made her head spin.

Dean rose and wandered out to the front porch but in spite of his sterling speech, and overwhelming wish that he could forget the Shiptons and all the grief they had brought him, he couldn't quite chase the unfinished business from his churning mind.

The idea of emeralds swimming around in a lake was too much for Katie.  She felt nauseous again at her overwhelming situation and stopped, leaning against a tree.  What she would give for a sip of real water!

The fury was replaced by an overwhelming sadness.

First and foremost was an overwhelming urge to punch his lights out but past similar responses hadn't produced positive results.

The effect of the first brief speech was so overwhelming that Hortensius refused to reply, and recommended his client to leave the country.

The Chamber, though convinced of the danger of this reform, the perils of which were incisively demonstrated by Sella, voted by an overwhelming majority for an immediate reduction of the impost by onefourth, and its complete abolition within four years.

Its population is estimated at 3000, but as its inhabitants never submitted to Spanish and Mexican rule, and have maintained their independence against overwhelming odds for almost four centuries, this estimate should be accepted as a conjecture.

What had she ever done to deserve such overwhelming happiness?

From the 12th to 22nd of July he was fighting continually, but finally, on the 31st of July, his army was annihilated by overwhelming numbers near Segesvár (Schassburg), Bem only escaping by feigning death.

To me, the sense of accomplishment was overwhelming.

Although taken aback by such intimacy from a stranger, as well as terrified himself, he felt an overwhelming need to comfort her.

Abd-ul-Hamid had always resisted the pressure of the European Powers to the last moment, in order to seem to yield only to overwhelming force, while posing as the champion of Islam against aggressive Christendom.

The appearance of Charles himself, however, with an overwhelming force quelled the disturbance; the ringleaders were executed, and all the property and privileges of the city were confiscated.

It is significant that Saul in his last unavailing struggle against the overwhelming forces of the Philistines sought through the medium of a sorceress for an interview with the deceased prophet Samuel.

France responded by an overwhelming affirmative, 3,568,885 votes being cast for the proposal and only 8374 against it.

The Maxwells were pursued into Lockerbie and almost exterminated; hence "Lockerbie Lick" became a proverbial expression, signifying an overwhelming defeat.

It was all overwhelming.

Imagine the overwhelming guilt Rev. Martin must have felt over this terrible sin of his relationship with a prostitute.

The French and Venetians were at first successful, but on the 6th of June met overwhelming defeat at Novara.

The former is morphologically the more primitive condition, and is found in the overwhelming majority of birds, including many Passeriformes.

The overwhelming numerical superiority of the Sla y s, and the very great differences in ethnical type, belief and mythology between the IndoEuropean and the Ural-Altaic races, may have contributed to the same end.

If any one nation, he said, were able to back the strongest fleet with an overwhelming army, the whole world would be in jeopardy.

The road is covered by the fortress of Malborgeth, where Captain Hensel with a handful of men met with a heroic death defending the place against an overwhelming French force in the campaign of 1809.

He effectively checked the excitement, and when a month later an overwhelming Federal force began moving upon the western counties, the insurrection collapsed without bloodshed.

His world was one of confusion, his memories overwhelming as the dam that had been in place for thousands of years crumbled.

His challenges on the mortal realm alone were overwhelming.

It did sound a bit overwhelming.

The opposition outside parliament was in fact so overwhelming that the ministry decided to drop the bill.

So long as a great horde of nomads was encamped on the frontier the country was liable to be invaded by an overwhelming force of ruthless marauders.

In France the Revolution had been the work of the middle classes; in Russia an indigenous middle class has, comparatively speaking, no existence, the peasants forming the overwhelming majority of the population.'

Many of the furious Terrorists now became quiet and active councillors or administrators, the First Consul adopting the plan of multiplying "places," of overwhelming all officials with work, and of busying the watch-dogs of the Jacobinical party by "throwing them bones to gnaw."

If the story is correct, his acts at Bayonne showed once more his custom of biding his time in order to take an overwhelming revenge.

He was attacked by so overwhelming a hypochondria that his life was despaired of, and he was placed for some time under the charge of a hydropathic physician at Cheltenham, where absolute rest and isolation gradually brought him round to health again.

But his necessities were overwhelming.

Lord Dufferin, who had succeeded Lord Lisgar as governor-general in 1872, at once sent for the leader of the Opposition, Mr Alexander Mackenzie, who succeeded in forming a Liberal administration which, on appealing to the constituencies, was supported by an overwhelming majority, and held power for the five following years.