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Definition of Overwhelms
1. overwhelm [v] - See also: overwhelm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overwhelms
Literary usage of Overwhelms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Chamfort said, "There is nothing that kills like ridicule ;" and he was familiar
with the guillotine. Like the guillotine, however, ridicule overwhelms bad ..."
2. Ireland: Historical and Statistical by George Lewis Smyth (1844)
"That overwhelms the reasoning faculties with astonishment, and is not to be
paralleled * This is the sum for which Mr. Ward took credit in his speech, ..."
3. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1860)
"... where disbursements that mother of tariffs, banks, and of the very catastrophe
which now overwhelms us. Reduction of the expenses and of the revenue, ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1889)
"... but the current of mediocrity overwhelms all, misleads the less rigid, and
fills with enthusiasm those who have no fixed scientific faith, ..."
5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1856)
"He overwhelms canoes with the surges of the sea; swallows up lands, trees, and
houses in his devastating floods, and destroys no small number of the insects ..."
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