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overwhelm

verb
  1. To flow over completely: deluge, drown, engulf, flood, flush, inundate, overflow, submerge, whelm. See full
  2. To render totally ineffective by decisive defeat: annihilate, crush, drub, overpower, smash, steamroller, thrash, trounce, vanquish. Informal: massacre, wallop. Slang: clobber, cream, shellac, smear. See win
  3. To affect deeply or completely, as with emotion: crush, engulf, overcome, overpower, prostrate. See affect
  4. To impair severely something such as the spirit, health, or effectiveness of: break, crush, destroy, ruin. See help
  5. To affect as if by an outpouring of water: deluge, flood, inundate, swamp, whelm. See full

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