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overwhelm
verb as in flood, beat physically
verb as in astonish, devastate
Strongest matches
bewilder, confound, confuse, demoralize, destroy, disturb, dumbfound, overcome, overpower, puzzle, shock, stun, surprise, swamp, upset
Strong matches
downgrade, drown, floor, kill, prostrate, shatter, stagger, steamroller, subordinate, wreck
Weak matches
blow out of the water, bowl over, do in, render speechless, run circles around
Example Sentences
“I went from, I got a little bit of a head cold to I have cancer, and it was pretty overwhelming.”
Speaking to BBC News, Harvey said she was "in complete shock and very overwhelmed".
This is the overwhelming challenge facing humanity, and Trump’s gaslighting — dismissing it as “a hoax” — has been astonishingly effective in keeping it off the political stage.
But what I found, and the reason I recommend it to everyone, is because the overwhelming emotion is gratitude.
His main memory of that time is an overwhelming sense of poverty.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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