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Main Entry:	overwhelm [oh-ver-hwelm, -welm] Show IPA
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	flood, beat physically
Synonyms:	bury, conquer, crush, defeat, deluge, destroy, drown, drub, engulf, inundate, massacre, overcome, overflow, overpower, overrun, overthrow, rout, smother, submerge, swamp, thrash, total, whip, win*
Antonyms:	underwhelm

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	overwhelming
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	overpowering
Synonyms:	amazing, astounding, breathtaking, crushing, devastating, exciting, eye-opening, mind-boggling, overcoming, paralyzing, shattering, staggering, stunning, vast

Main Entry:	acute
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	severe, intense
Synonyms:	cutting, distressing, excruciating, exquisite, fierce, keen, overpowering, overwhelming, piercing, poignant, powerful, racking, severe, sharp, shooting, stabbing, sudden, violent
Notes:	acute is used for a sudden onset and short duration; chronic is for conditions that are slow to develop and of long duration acute is an angle of less than 90 degrees; obtuse is one of more than 90 degrees chronic is contrasted with acute as chronic pain persists over a longer period of time than acute pain and is resistant to most medical treatments

Example Sentences

Overwhelming imbalances in wealth and income inevitably result in enormous imbalances of political power.

Academics tend strongly toward whitewash in plagiarism, even when evidence for conviction is overwhelming.

Meanwhile, the overwhelming majority of developing countries suffer a shortage of capital.

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Overwhelming imbalances in wealth and income inevitably result in enormous imbalances of political power.

Academics tend strongly toward whitewash in plagiarism, even when evidence for conviction is overwhelming.

Meanwhile, the overwhelming majority of developing countries suffer a shortage of capital.

The amount of waters was beyond my imagination and the ability to almost touch the falls was overwhelming.

The world's overwhelming demand for oil only increases the likelihood of these events repeating themselves.

There is absolutely overwhelming proof for evolution.

No other place promises such easy and overwhelming immersion in the wild world.

However, when trying to understand the education system of another country, the sheer volume of information can be overwhelming.

The overwhelming response from my last post was to consider the management/administration in my decision.

In the face of so many overwhelming enemies, protest gets a bit diluted.

Often this combination is overwhelming and intimidating.

The evidence this this answer is affirmative is pretty overwhelming.

Against overwhelming odds, they succeeded in defeating poachers and saving the local elephant population.

But no other place promises such easy and overwhelming immersion in the wild world.

The threat of a real virus was overwhelming them, and they had nobody to track it.

The overwhelming majority of these students are female.

Yet the overwhelming majority of voters live in the south.

There she hopes to address how communities can coordinate their efforts to tackle what often seems to be an overwhelming problem.

The scientific community overwhelming supports the conclusion that global climate change is real and caused by man.

The information and knowledge is overwhelming and vast.

The hosannas greeting the iPhone were so overwhelming it was easy to ignore its imperfections.

Salvador was the overwhelming favorite, though no vote was taken.

At first glance, the case for new runways appears overwhelming.

It presents a lot of information all in one place without overwhelming readers.

There is overwhelming evidence that the earth has warmed and cooled dramatically many times in the past.

Sharp and zingy without overwhelming the cheddar taste.

Right now, the overwhelming majority of our energy production comes from burning fossil fuels.

Those are the papers that sustain hope in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

One is an overwhelming emphasis on short-term fiscal austerity over growth.

The scene alone was awe inspiring, the sudden appearance of life in a setting of such overwhelming natural power was uplifting.

When asked what should be cut instead, defense spending was the overwhelming pick.

I've personally found the overwhelming majority of wikipedia's organic chemistry content to be of extremely high quality.

The beats are complex enough to keep me engaged without overwhelming me.

The overwhelming majority of faculty serve contingently.

Instead he raised taxes and slashed spending, for which he enjoyed the public's overwhelming support.

The odds of winning the legal battle may seem overwhelming.

But an overwhelming majority of ethanol mixed into gasoline today comes from corn.

Today, the overwhelming majority are contingent faculty and graduate students.

The support that this teenager received from his friend is overwhelming.

The evidence is overwhelming that the mean temperature of the planet is rising and our ice is melting.

Faculty serving contingently are the overwhelming majority of all faculty today.

Growing your own organic vegetables does not have to be an overwhelming process.

Mankind has an overwhelming influence on the planet.

The raft and the journey would call attention to the overwhelming amount of plastics clogging our seas.

The overwhelming scientific consensus is that global warming is real, and that it's upon us now.

The response and receptiveness by students, fellow teachers and the surrounding community was overwhelming.

The notion of financial profits overwhelming literary sensibility is certainly timely, then as now.

He never took human rationality to be the overwhelming feature about our nature.

The overwhelming majority-90 percent-of malaria victims live in.

But sometimes it seems that the list of tasks is so overwhelming it causes more.

Amongst the somewhat overwhelming umber of slipcover projects, there are a few tech-related gems, such as this.

Strong winds can pull many bathers out to sea simultaneously, overwhelming the guards if there are only a few of them.

With alpine climbing, sometimes the only certainty is an overwhelming sense of ambiguity".

The company's board approved the project earlier today based upon overwhelming response from.

It is really a map of overwhelming change and conflict.

The overwhelming majority of them will never play professional sports.

Years later overwhelming evidence comes out that the guy was innocent.

The overwhelming sense of emptiness and sorrow that now fills our hearts is tempered by.

Web searches result in an overwhelming barrage of negative studies, reports, articles and posts.

However, the evidence was overwhelming that trade produces far more.

It's overwhelming to see what the staff is doing every month.

Look at the overwhelming evidence in the history of computing.

The e-mail generated by that essay was overwhelming.

Such generosity places value not on the giver, but on the overwhelming influence of the.

In the end it was overwhelming military force, not a political deal among the warring factions, that won the day.

We had a lot of time to take it in, but it's overwhelming.

The weight of evidence against your position will soon be overwhelming.

In the event of another overwhelming news development, transcending all boundaries, the stand-alone section can be reinstated.

The core insight of the dash is that part of what's so overwhelming about certain tasks.

Its advantages, however, are less overwhelming than they seem.

It was an overwhelming experience which will stay with me for a long time to come.

The sun is the overwhelming source of heat and energy for all of the planet's surface.

But as unmanned surveillance systems proliferate, commanders will be faced with an overwhelming amount of data.

And no doubt considerably higher than the overwhelming majority of college professors.

However the overwhelming evidence suggests human caused warming.

We had this overwhelming sensation that they were going to come for us that night.

All this in the face of overwhelming faculty opposition.

But all failed, often amid overwhelming opposition from chiefs.

The flight was an overwhelming success with the airplane out performing many of the pre-flight expectations.

The sense of national solidarity and the kindness between strangers were overwhelming.

But in the real world there remains one overwhelming reason why dividend policy is not irrelevant: tax.

The number of people who came to see him was overwhelming.

It has tremendous potential to get benifit from as overwhelming response would there be from cellular phone users.

The scientific evidence supporting evolution by means of natural selection is also overwhelming.

We find too many things to differentiate ourselves, but our commonalities are overwhelming.

It is imperative to keep in mind that although white slave owners did have overwhelming power, they were not gods.

Since overwhelming recent evidence shows over ten times this amount may be necessary to achieve optimum.

Almost as much of a mystery is his recorded output, which is overwhelming in terms of sheer amount.

The overwhelming sense of commerce and traffic noise informs every waking moment".

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Main Entry:	astonish
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	surprise
Synonyms:	amaze, astound, bewilder, blow away, blow one's mind, boggle, bowl over, confound, daze, dumbfound, flabbergast, floor*, knock over, overwhelm, put one away, shock, spring on, stagger, startle, stun, stupefy, take aback, throw a curve
Antonyms:	bore, calm, expect

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	astound
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	amaze
Synonyms:	astonish, bewilder, blow away, bowl over, confound, confuse, daze, dumbfound, flabbergast, knock over with feather, overwhelm, shock, stagger, startle, stun, stupefy, surprise, take aback
Antonyms:	bore, dull

Main Entry:	astounding
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	amazing
Synonyms:	astonishing, breathtaking, confounding, eye-popping, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, overwhelming*, shocking, startling, stupefying, surprising, wondrous

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	attack
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	assault physically
Synonyms:	advance, aggress, ambush, assail, assault, bash, bat, bean, beat, beset, besiege, biff, blast, blister, boff, bombard, boot, bop, brain, bust, charge, chop down, clip, clock, club, combat, cook, harm, hit, hurt, infiltrate, invade, jump, kick, knock block off, knock cold, knock for a loop, larrup, lay siege to, light into, molest, mug, overwhelm, pounce upon, punch, raid, rush, set upon, slog, soak, stab, storm, strike, take the offensive, turn on, wallop, whop
Antonyms:	aid, defend, protect, resist, retreat, shelter, shield, submit, support, surrender, sustain

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	awesome
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	amazing
Synonyms:	alarming, astonishing, awe-inspiring, awful, beautiful, breathtaking, daunting, dreadful, exalted, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frantic, frightening, grand, hairy, horrible, horrifying, imposing, impressive, intimidating, magnificent, majestic, mean, mind-blowing, moving, nervous, overwhelming, real gone, shocking, something else, striking, stunning, stupefying, terrible, terrifying, wonderful, wondrous, zero cool
Antonyms:	unamazing

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	beat
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	defeat, surpass
Synonyms:	be victorious, best, better, conquer, exceed, excel, outdo, outplay, outrival, outrun, outshine, outstrip, overcome, overtake, overwhelm, shoot ahead of, subdue, top, transcend, triumph, vanquish, whip
Antonyms:	cede, lose, relinquish, retreat, surrender

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