Sentence example with the word 'overwhelm'

overwhelm

afflict, blank, contradict, disturb, grieve, overbear, pack a punch, scale, souse, suppress, wreck

Definition v. overcome

Last update: August 24, 2015


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The guests were overwhelmed by our hospitality.   [verb]

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Eighty thousand properties are at risk in towns and cities from flooding caused by heavy downpours that overwhelm urban sewers and drains.   [verb]

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That heart now threatens, like the ripe fig he grows on the Tyne, to overwhelm his work with sweetness.   [verb]

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There she stood in the archway and looked down, and the terror of the scene overwhelmed her.   [verb]

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"Truly, gentlemen," said Lovel, "before you muster your forces and overwhelm me with authorities, I should like to know the word in dispute."   [verb]

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I did not imagine that she felt herself simply overwhelmed, and that her parents had nothing to do with her sorrow.   [verb]

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Cleopatra, too, was overwhelmed with emotion.   [verb]

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Trembling in every slender limb, shaken with grief, and overwhelmed with sorrow, the slight shepherdess stood before him, and he felt as if he must help her.   [verb]

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Fresh alarms and fresh shame overwhelmed the poor girl; she tried to free herself and found him quite ready to set her down.   [verb]

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He was finally dragged out of the basin of the fountain, dripping with water and overwhelmed with shame.   [verb]

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But the language of the Nubian's eyes had not escaped the suspicious watchfulness of the anxious Barine and, overwhelmed with fresh terror, she begged that she might hear all.   [verb]

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