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WHELM

Dictionary entry overview: What does whelm mean?

• WHELM (verb)
The verb WHELM has 1 sense:

1. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

Familiarity information: WHELM used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• WHELM (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

overwhelm; sweep over; whelm; overpower; overcome; overtake

Hypernyms (to "whelm" is one way to...):

arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "whelm"):

devastate (overwhelm or overpower)

clutch; get hold of; seize (affect)

kill (overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration)

benight (overtake with darkness or night)

knock out (overwhelm with admiration)

stagger (astound or overwhelm, as with shock)

lock (hold fast (in a certain state))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

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