Definisjon av whelm

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Verb

whelm - overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, overcome, overtake
enkindle, elicit, kindle, provoke, evoke, arouse, fire, raise derive by reason; "elicit a solution"
devastate overwhelm or overpower; "He was devastated by his grief when his son died"
clutch, get hold of, seize affect; "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unbearable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease"
kill destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"
benight make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
knock out destroy or break forcefully; "The windows were knocked out"
stagger to arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"
lock become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise"
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whelm - To cover; to submerge; to engulf; to bury.
whelm - To overcome with emotion.
whelm - To throw something over a thing so as to cover it.

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