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whelm

verb as in inundate

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That would be up to you, and if you go that way, spicy is available, too — definitely whelming, if not overly so.

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I reviewed it and found it completely ...whelming.

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She’s walking through the school quadrangle, ruminating on whether one “can ever just be whelmed”.

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He was like a worn small rock whelmed by the successive waves of his voice.

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Inside it, the kingcups bloomed and the brook whelmed up from its source.

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

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