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单词 snowing under
释义

snow under

verb

snowed under; snowing under; snows under

transitive verb

1
: to overwhelm especially in excess of capacity to absorb or deal with something
2
: to defeat by a large margin

Synonyms

  • annihilate
  • blow away
  • bomb
  • bury
  • clobber
  • cream
  • drub
  • dust
  • flatten
  • paste
  • rout
  • shellac
  • skin
  • skunk
  • smoke [slang]
  • smother
  • thrash
  • trim
  • tromp
  • trounce
  • wallop
  • wax [slang]
  • whip
  • whomp
  • whop
  • whap
  • whup
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Example Sentences

the challenger snowed the incumbent under in a big upset snowed under by the huge pile of paperwork

Word History

First Known Use

1880, in the meaning defined at sense 1

snowing under

verb

present participle of snow under
1
as in blowing away
to defeat by a large margin the challenger snowed the incumbent under in a big upset

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • blowing away
  • running rings around
  • bombing
  • eating alive
  • overcoming
  • beating the pants off
  • wiping the ground with
  • wiping the floor with
  • running circles around
  • whipping
  • routing
  • burying
  • dusting
  • mastering
  • trimming
  • pasting
  • topping
  • smoking
  • flattening
  • beating
  • upsetting
  • thrashing
  • overwhelming
  • trouncing
  • drubbing
  • annihilating
  • skinning
  • throwing
  • smothering
  • whopping
  • knocking over
  • clobbering
  • waxing
  • shellacking
  • walloping
  • creaming
  • scoring
  • knocking off
  • exceeding
  • taking
  • whapping
  • surpassing
  • conquering
  • sweeping
  • skunking
  • tromping
  • succeeding
  • whupping
  • triumphing (over)
  • prevailing (over)
  • winning (against)
  • whomping
  • destroying
  • capping
  • dispatching
  • nosing out
  • doing in
  • crushing
  • licking
  • acing (out)
  • overmatching
  • edging (out)
  • worsting
  • surmounting
  • finishing
  • overbearing
  • subduing
  • overpowering
  • overthrowing
  • slaughtering
  • subjugating
  • overtopping
  • transcending
  • besting
  • vanquishing
  • eclipsing
  • outstripping
  • outshining
  • upending
  • flourishing
  • hurdling
  • excelling
  • bettering
  • outdistancing
  • outdoing
  • outfighting
  • pipping
  • sinking
  • breaking
2
as in overwhelming
to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress snowed under by the huge pile of paperwork

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • overwhelming
  • devastating
  • overcoming
  • grinding (down)
  • crushing
  • flooring
  • oppressing
  • overpowering
  • overmastering
  • swamping
  • rocking
  • disturbing
  • whelming
  • prostrating
  • drowning
  • defeating
  • sinking
  • shattering
  • distressing
  • refuting
  • upsetting
  • throwing
  • staggering
  • deluging
  • unnerving
  • confuting
  • demoralizing
  • unmanning
  • breaking
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