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单词 overwhelm
释义
overwhelm
(vəʳhwelm )
Word forms: overwhelms , overwhelming , overwhelmed
1. verb
If you are overwhelmed by a feeling or event, it affects you very strongly, and you do not know how to deal with it.
He was overwhelmed by a longing for times past. [be VERB-ed]
The need to talk to someone, anyone, overwhelmed her. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: overcome, overpower, devastate [informal], stagger  
overwhelmed adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE]
Sightseers may be a little overwhelmed by the crowds and noise. [+ by]
2. verb
If a group of people overwhelm a place or another group, they gain complete control or victory over them.
It was clear that one massive Allied offensive would overwhelm the weakened enemy. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: destroy, beat, defeat, overcome  
3. verb
If an organization or service is overwhelmed, it is unable to cope with the demand for it. .
Their greatest fear was that the health service could be overwhelmed. [be VERB-ed]
Synonyms: swamp, bury, flood, crush  
4. uncountable noun
Overwhelm is the fact or feeling of not being able to cope or deal with something.
Even in the face of political overwhelm, let's not forget the fight at home.
It feels liberating, in the midst of overwhelm, to make a list, even before you've completed a single item on it.
Collocations:
overwhelm an opponent
Usually a player uses a move, or a series of offensive moves, to overwhelm the opponent.
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He serves mostly as a bodyguard and berserker-type fighter who tries to overwhelm his opponent through sheer brute force.
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When he flows, his teams often overwhelm opponents.
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In this event, his trademark front-running overwhelmed opponents.
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Participants often use elbow strikes in conjunction with punches while in the full guard, half guard, side mount, or full mount in order to knock out or overwhelm the opponent.
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overwhelm the system
Going further, to criminalise, would simply create a culture of fear in which a cascade of tiny suspicions would overwhelm the system and obscure more well-founded concerns.
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During storms, for example, high levels of rainfall (in excess of 6 mm per hour) in a short period of time can overwhelm the system.
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But record numbers of students have overwhelmed the system with a million applications.
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Settlement by physical delivery of certificates worked adequately until the 1960s, when a sharp increase in trading volumes overwhelmed the system.
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overwhelmed by a task
They are little guys, simply overwhelmed by the task that faces them.
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While most members may be overwhelmed by the task of missions, there are often a few in the church who catch a vision for missions and become totally devoted.
Christianity Today
At times, they seemed overwhelmed by their task.
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overwhelmed by the demand
And yet their doctors and nurses have been completely overwhelmed by the demand.
The Sun
Soon, they were overwhelmed by the demand for places.
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But he quickly became overwhelmed by the demands on his time.
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overwhelmed by the size of
Overwhelmed by the size of the gowns and sequins, she decided to have one made.
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They have not been daunted or overwhelmed by the size of the challenge facing them.
The Sun
I am overwhelmed by the size of it.
The Sun
Police and public transport officials were overwhelmed by the size of the response, which gridlocked roads, buses, trains and ferries.
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Many teachers are overwhelmed by the size of their classroom and feel that they could not accurately assess or monitor their students independent work in centers.
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overwhelmed by the volume of
King marvelled at 'so much misdirected ingenuity', and was sometimes overwhelmed by the volume of her intelligence gathering.
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So successful in fact that, overwhelmed by the volume of requests, he started faking the results.
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Staff working in offices with high levels of sickness reported feeling overwhelmed by the volume of work they had to cover.
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I spent a day trawling the site and ended up overwhelmed by the volume of documents and the grubbiness of what they reveal.
Times, Sunday Times
Wired telephone lines continued to work, although some systems were overwhelmed by the volume of traffic, and millions of home users had only cordless telephones depending on house current.
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Translations:
Chinese: 使不知所措强烈地影响而
Japanese: 感極まらせる
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