over+whelm
91steamroller — Synonyms and related words: align, beat, beat down, big battalions, blackjack, blank, blast, blow down, bludgeon, break down, bring down, brute force, bulldoze, bulldozer, bully, burn down, cast down, cheese grater, chop down, clobber, coerce,… …
92drown — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. suffocate; submerge, inundate; muffle, overpower, go down for the third time. See water, killing, silence, death, loudness, failure. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To cover with liquid] Syn. swamp, inundate,… …
93engulf — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. swamp, flood, immerse, engorge, swallow up; encircle, envelop, encompass. See destruction, water. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. swallow up, inundate, submerge, overwhelm; see cover 8 , immerse 1 , sink 2 …
94flush — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. blush, redden; elate, thrill; rinse; start, rouse. See horizontal. n. blush, redness, glow, elation, thrill; gush, rush. See heat, feeling, color, cleanness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Flat] Syn. even …
95submerge — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. drown, sink, plunge, dive, submerse, immerse, engulf, inundate; be overshadowed, subordinate to, play second fiddle to. See water, depth, inferiority. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To cause to sink] Syn.… …
96overwhelm — v. a. 1. Overflow, spread over and cover, swallow up, whelm, submerge, sink, drown. 2. Overbear, overpower, overcome, subdue, vanquish, conquer, defeat …
97swamp — n 1. marsh, bog, fen, morass, quagmire, quag, Archaic. marish; mire, quicksand, mud, muck, ooze, sludge; sough, slough, Brit. Dial. sump, Scot. moss, wash, squash, wallow; flat, mud flat, everglade, peat bog, moor, Chiefly Brit. moorland; bottom… …
98drown — [v] submerge in liquid; submerge and die asphyxiate, deluge, dip, douse, drench, engulf, flood, go down, go under, immerse, inundate, knock over, obliterate, overcome, overflow, overpower, overwhelm, plunge, prostrate, sink, soak, sop, souse,… …
99overpower — [v] beat; get the upper hand bear down, beat down, blank, blow away*, bulldoze*, bury, clobber, conquer, cream*, crush, defeat, drown, drub*, immobilize, knock out*, lay one out*, murder*, overcome, overthrow, overwhelm, prostrate, put away*,… …
100whoave — to cover or whelm over. Chesh. We will not kill, but whoave. Prov. Spoken of a pig or fowl that they have overwhelmed with some vessel in readiness to kill. Ab A. S. HWOLF, HWALF, a covering, or canopy ; verb. HWALFIAN, camerare, fornicare. N …
