Synonyms for Overwhelm:

adj.
• infest
- Crowder
- Teemer
- crawler
- filler
- flocker
- harrier
- over spread
- packer
- swarmer
- worrier
- Presser
- infect
- teem
n.
- break the ... barrier
- litter
- Beleaguered
- active duty
- active service
- aggressor
- air cover
- battle cry
- belligerent
- black out
- bombed-out
- arouse
- awaken
- have
- ignite
- inspire
- invoke
- provoke
- rouse
- touch
- flash mob
- full
- spring a surprise
• bog down
- bog
• bowl over
- bowl
• ruination
- wrecker
- wreckers
v.
• astonish
- be wilder
- be wildered
- be wildering
- be wilders
- be-wilder
- be-wildered
- be-wildering
- be-wilders
- blew mind
- blew one mind
- blew one's mind
- blew ones mind
- blow one mind
- blow ones mind
- blowing away
- blowing mind
- blowing one mind
- blowing one's mind
- blowing ones mind
- blows away
- blows mind
- blows one mind
- blows one's mind
- blows ones mind
- knocking over
- knocks over
- over whelm
- over whelmed
- over whelming
- over whelms
- over-whelm
- over-whelmed
- over-whelming
- over-whelms
- puts one away
- putting one away
- sprang on
- springing on
- springs on
- sprung on
- threw a curve
- threw curve
- throw curve
- throwing a curve
- throwing curve
- throws a curve
- throws curve
• astound
- knocked over with feather
- knocking over with feather
- knocks over with feather
• attack
- be sets
- be setting
- be siege
- be sieged
- be sieges
- be sieging
- be-set
- be-sets
- be-setting
- be-siege
- be-sieged
- be-sieges
- be-sieging
- boffed
- boffing
- boffs
- chopping down
- chops down
- co oked
- co oking
- co-oked
- co-oking
- in filtrate
- in filtrated
- in filtrates
- in filtrating
- in-filtrate
- in-filtrated
- in-filtrates
- in-filtrating
- knock for loop
- knocked block off
- knocked cold
- knocked for loop
- knocking block off
- knocking cold
- knocking for a loop
- knocking for loop
- knocks block off
- knocks cold
- knocks for a loop
- knocks for loop
- laid siege to
- laying siege to
- lays siege to
- light in to
- lighted in to
- lighted into
- lighting in to
- lighting into
- lights in to
- lights into
- lit in to
- lit into
- pounce up on
- pounced up on
- pounced upon
- pounces up on
- pounces upon
- pouncing up on
- pouncing upon
- set up on
- sets up on
- setting up on
- setting upon
- take offensive
- takes offensive
- takes the offensive
- taking offensive
- taking the offensive
- took offensive
- took the offensive
• beat
- am victorious
- are victorious
- art victorious
- be sting
- be-sting
- being victorious
- ex celled
- ex celling
- ex-celled
- ex-celling
- out did
- out does
- out doing
- out done
- out play
- out played
- out playing
- out plays
- out rival
- out rivaled
- out rivaling
- out rivalled
- out rivalling
- out rivals
- out run
- out running
- out runs
- out shine
- out shined
- out shines
- out shining
- out shone
- out strip
- out stripped
- out stripping
- out strips
- out-did
- out-does
- out-doing
- out-done
- out-play
- out-played
- out-playing
- out-plays
- out-rival
- out-rivaled
- out-rivaling
- out-rivalled
- out-rivalling
- out-rivals
- out-run
- out-running
- out-runs
- out-shine
- out-shined
- out-shines
- out-shining
- out-shone
- out-strip
- out-stripped
- out-stripping
- out-strips
- shooting ahead of
- shoots ahead of
- shot ahead of
- sub due
- sub dues
- sub-due
- sub-dues
- wast victorious
- were victorious
- wert victorious
• bedazzle
- be dazzle
- be dazzles
- be dazzling
- be-dazzle
- be-dazzled
- be-dazzles
- be-dazzling
• bemuse
- be muse
- be mused
- be musing
- be-muse
- be-mused
- be-musing
- gathered wool
- gathering wool
- gathers wool
- pipe dreamed
- pipe dreamt
• boggle
- filling with wonder
- fills with wonder
• burden
- bare down on
- beared down on
- bearing down on
- bears down on
- bore down on
- de press
- de pressed
- de presses
- de pressing
- de-press
- de-pressed
- de-presses
- de-pressing
- dished it out
- dishes it out
- dishing it out
- dumping on
- dumps on
- gave it to
- gave to
- gives it to
- gives to
- giving it to
- made heavy
- makes heavy
- making heavy
- over charge
- over charged
- over charges
- over charging
- over-charge
- over-charged
- over-charges
- over-charging
- saddles with
- saddling with
- snowing under
- snows under
- sticked it to
- sticked to
- sticking it to
- sticking to
- sticks it to
- stuck it to
• capture
- gained control
- gains control
- prehending
- prehends
- put cuffs on
- puts cuffs on
- puts the cuffs on
- putting cuffs on
- putting the cuffs on
- take in to custody
- takes prisoner
- taking prisoner
- took captive
- took prisoner
• confute
- blew sky high
- blowing sky high
- blows sky high
- bring naught
- bringing naught
- bringing to naught
- brings naught
- brings to naught
- brought naught
- brought to naught
- dis may
- dis mayed
- dis maying
- dis mays
- dis prove
- dis proved
- dis proves
- dis proving
- dis-may
- dis-mayed
- dis-maying
- dis-mays
- dis-prove
- dis-proved
- dis-proves
- dis-proving
- ex pose
- ex posed
- ex-pose
- ex-posed
- ex-posing
- in validate
- in validated
- in validates
- in validating
- in-validate
- in-validated
- in-validates
- in-validating
- knocksed props out from under
- knockses props out from under
- knocksing props out from under
- over turned
- over turning
- over turns
- over-turn
- over-turned
- over-turning
- over-turns
- proved false
- proves false
- proves wrong
- proving false
- proving wrong
- re butted
- re butting
- re-butted
- re-butting
- sets aside
- up sets
- up setting
- up-set
- up-sets
- up-setting
• consume
- de cay
- de cays
- de-cay
- de-cays
- ex pend
- ex pended
- ex pending
- ex pends
- ex-pend
- ex-pended
- ex-pending
- ex-pends
• crush
- blots out
- forced down
- forces down
- forcing down
- quelched
- quelches
- quelching
- re duce
- re duces
- re-duce
- re-duces
- sub jugate
- sub-jugate
• daze
- be fog
- be fogged
- be fogging
- be fogs
- be fuddle
- be fuddled
- be fuddles
- be fuddling
- be numb
- be numbed
- be numbing
- be numbs
- be-fog
- be-fogged
- be-fogging
- be-fogs
- be-fuddle
- be-fuddled
- be-fuddles
- be-fuddling
- be-numb
- be-numbed
- be-numbing
- be-numbs
- dis order
- dis ordered
- dis ordering
- dis orders
- dis tract
- dis tracts
- dis-order
- dis-ordered
- dis-ordering
- dis-orders
- dis-tract
- dis-tracts
• dazzle
- ex cite
- ex cited
- ex cites
- ex citing
- ex-cite
- ex-cited
- ex-cites
- glitzed
- glitzing
- over awe
- over awed
- over awes
- over awing
- over-awe
- over-awed
- over-awes
- over-awing
- razzle dazzle
- razzle dazzled
- razzle dazzles
- razzle dazzling
- razzle-dazzled
- razzle-dazzles
- razzle-dazzling
- razzledazzle
- razzledazzled
- razzledazzles
- razzledazzling
- strikes dumb
- striking dumb
- strook dumb
• defeat
- de feat
- de feats
- de-feat
- de-feats
- dis comfit
- dis comfits
- dis-comfit
- dis-comfits
- finishes off
- finishing off
- out flank
- out flanked
- out flanking
- out flanks
- out maneuvered
- out maneuvering
- out maneuvers
- out-flank
- out-flanked
- out-flanking
- out-flanks
- out-maneuver
- out-maneuvered
- out-maneuvering
- out-maneuvers
- prevailed over
- prevailing over
- prevails over
- re press
- re pressed
- re presses
- re pressing
- re pulse
- re pulsed
- re pulses
- re pulsing
- re-presses
- re-pressing
- re-pulse
- re-pulsed
- re-pulses
- re-pulsing
- rolled back
- rolling back
- rolls back
- sur mount
- sur mounted
- sur mounting
- sur mounts
- sur-mount
- sur-mounted
- sur-mounting
- sur-mounts
• deluge
- de luge
- de luged
- de luges
- de luging
- de-luge
- de-luged
- de-luges
- de-luging
- over flow
- over flowed
- over flowing
- over flown
- over flows
- over-flow
- over-flowed
- over-flowing
- over-flown
- over-flows
• drown
- in undated
- in-undated
• dumbfound
- threw in to a tizzy
- threw in to tizzy
- threw into a tizzy
- threw into tizzy
- throw in to a tizzy
- throw in to tizzy
- throwing in to a tizzy
- throwing in to tizzy
- throwing into a tizzy
- throwing into tizzy
- throws in to a tizzy
- throws in to tizzy
- throws into a tizzy
- throws into tizzy
• emotion
- overwhelm
• engulf
- swallowed up
- swallows up
• fascinate
- be guile
- be guiles
- be witch
- be witched
- be witches
- be witching
- be-guile
- be-guiles
- be-witch
- be-witched
- be-witches
- be-witching
- de light
- de lighted
- de lighting
- de lights
- de-light
- de-lighted
- de-lighting
- de-lights
- in vite
- rivetted
- rivetting
- trans fix
- trans fixed
- trans fixes
- trans fixing
- trans fixt
- trans ported
- trans-fix
- trans-fixed
- trans-fixes
- trans-fixing
- trans-fixt
• flabbergast
- dis concert
- dis concerted
- dis concerting
- dis concerts
- dis-concert
- dis-concerted
- dis-concerting
- dis-concerts
- made speechless
- makes speechless
- making speechless
- threw for a loop
- threw for loop
- throwing for a loop
- throwing for loop
- throws for a loop
- throws for loop
• flood
- brimmed over
- brimming over
- brims over
- over supplied
- over supplies
- over supply
- over supplying
- over-supplied
- over-supplying
- oversupplying
- poured over
- pouring over
- pours over
• gang up on
- gang on
- gang upon
- joined forces against
- joining forces against
- joins forces against
• glut
- made a pig of
- made pig of
- make pig of
- makes a pig of
- makes pig of
- making a pig of
- making pig of
- over feed
- over feeding
- over feeds
- over stock
- over stocked
- over stocking
- over stocks
- over-feed
- over-feeding
- over-feeds
- over-stock
- over-stocked
- over-stocking
- over-stocks
• hit
- arrives at
- leave mark
- leaved a mark
- leaved mark
- leaves a mark
- leaves mark
- leaving a mark
- leaving mark
- left mark
- re ached
- re aching
- re-ached
- re-aching
• lick
- sur pass
- sur passed
- sur passes
- sur-pass
- sur-passed
- sur-passes
- sur-passing
• overrun
- surpass
- transgress
Other synonyms:

•

break

•

affect

•

destroy
flush

Other relevant words:

• amaze

astound

• attack

• bedazzle

• bemuse

gather wool
pipe dreaming

• boggle

• capture

• confuse

bemuse

• confute

• consume

• defeat

• dumbfound

throw into a tizzy
throw into tizzy

• flabbergast

make speechless
throw for a loop
throw for loop

• flood

• kill

slaughter

• lade

• lick

• overburden

over-burden
overburdened

• overrun

• ruin

• surprise

• take

• thrash

• trample

• Other relevant words (adjective):

behaviour

• Other relevant words (noun):

activity
effect

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

What are the paraphrases for Overwhelm?

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Independent
- Verb, base form
  burden, destroy, flood, impose, imposing, overburden, overload, overpower, quash, saturate, squash, surmount.
Other Related
- Verb, base form
  annihilate, conquer, crush, override, submerge.

What are the hypernyms for Overwhelm?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

hypernyms for overwhelm (as verbs)
- emotion
  get hold of, benight, devastate, kill, seize, knock out, lock, stagger, clutch.

What are the hyponyms for Overwhelm?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for overwhelm (as verbs)
- emotion
  evoke, arouse, kindle, enkindle, elicit, provoke, raise, fire.

What are the opposite words for overwhelm?

The word "overwhelm" refers to feeling completely defeated or helpless. Its antonyms include "underwhelm," "satisfy," "fulfill," "content," "relax," "calm," "composure," "balance," "manageable" and "cope." Underwhelm means being underwhelmed and not being able to meet expectations. While satisfy refers to fulfilling someone's need or want, content refers to being satisfied or calm. Relax, calm, and composure refer to not feeling stressed or overwhelmed. Balance refers to being able to maintain a stable state in the face of stress or trouble. Manageable and cope refer to being able to handle something effectively, usually a difficult situation or problem.

What are the antonyms for Overwhelm?

v.
• astonish, devastate
- aid
- assist
- clarify
- clear up
- comfort
- create
- enlighten
- explain
- help
- order
- organize
• flood, beat physically
- encourage
- fail
- forfeit
- inspirit
- lose
- not impress
- surrender
- uncover
- underwhelm
- yield
• noun
- admit
- advertise
- avow
- betray
- confess
- dehydrate
- disclose
- discover
- disinter
- divulge
- drain
- dry
- exhibit
- exhume
- expose
- lay bare
- lay open
- make known
- manifest
- parch
- promulgate
- publish
- raise
- reveal
- show
- tell
- unmask
- unveil

Usage examples for Overwhelm

What are they compared with the immense woe of this woman, every right of whose life has been trampled under foot, day after day, for twenty years, and whom they have first tried to cover with contempt, that they might then the more securely overwhelm her with punishment?...

"Contemporary Socialism"

John Rae

Lady Bell was relieved; her last maid used to overwhelm her with thanks.

"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"

Charles Garvice

I am, mademoiselle; you see that I am-for I did not overwhelm the false creature with reproaches, here, before her husband's face, before her new relations!

"Monsieur Cherami"

Charles Paul de Kock

Famous quotes with Overwhelm

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

Jeff Flake
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

Ogden Nash
Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

Idries Shah
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

Jane Smiley
One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.

Charles Sturt

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adj.

n.

v.

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