noun
definition
The state or condition of being overwhelmed.
verb
definition
To engulf, surge over and submerge.
example
The dinghy was overwhelmed by the great wave.
synonyms
definition
To overpower, crush.
example
In December 1939 the Soviet Union attacked Finland with overwhelming force.
definition
To overpower emotionally.
example
He was overwhelmed with guilt.
definition
To cause to surround, to cover.
Examples of overwhelms in a Sentence
The collar should be noticeable, yet not so much that it overwhelms your entire look.
The drug overwhelms the liver causing dysfunction.
I sometimes can't get over that heavy fresh cut hay flavor that occasionally overwhelms the citrus fruit.
Erythroblastosis fetalis overwhelms the removal system, and high levels of bilirubin accumulate, causing hyperbilirubinemia, a condition in which the baby becomes jaundiced.
Whether you just don't like carrying around a huge tote bag, can't handle the weight on a regular basis or feel that it overwhelms your frame, some women might be better off with something smaller.
Once Virgo warms up to you and decides you're trustworthy, he'll reveal the deep passion that overwhelms him.
Once the person emerges from the tunnel into the light, there is a feeling of love so intense it overwhelms the individual.
All publications require content to stay in business, but if the ad space overwhelms the space allotted for articles, the magazine is probably not worth the price of the paper on which it was written.
In both alike the scirocco, bringing rain from the south-west, is a prevalent wind, as well as the bora, the fearful north-north-easter of Illyria, which, sweeping down the lateral valleys of the Dinaric Alps, overwhelms everything in its path.
That takes all those up into itself, outshining them in radiance and glory - just as in the last month of the rains, at harvest time, the sun, mounting up on high into the clear and cloudless sky, overwhelms all darkness in the realms 1 Questions of King Milinda, translated by Rhys Davids (Oxford, 1890-1894), vol.
Sometimes the new technology so overwhelms the old that when looking back, we explain the old technology in terms of the new.
Binge drinking overwhelms the liver's capacity to process and remove alcohol from the bloodstream.