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overwhelmed

adjective as in beaten

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“I’m just overwhelmed by the reaction to it.”

Frances said she had been "overwhelmed" by how people had responded to her talking about her son's experiences.

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“I was totally overwhelmed with how fast the orders were coming,” Birger said.

By the time she landed in New York, she was hungover and overwhelmed with emotion.

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Eddie Glaude Jr. slumps a bit as he rubs his forehead, the universal sign of being overwhelmed by the flood of partisan nonsense Aaron Tang fictionalizes in “Breaking the Deadlock: Truth Under Fire.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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