| 单词 | whelm |
| 释义 | whelm transitive verb 1. a. dialect England b. < whelms his hat down over his eyes > 2. a. < sand all around them, about to creep up on them and whelm them — Mary H. Vorse > < the avalanche whelms the mountain village in tons of snow > b. < winter darkness whelms the woods > < long afterwards whelmed in some European convulsion — G.M.Trevelyan > < booming money … so fast that the problem was how to get rid of it before it whelmed you into suffocation — William Faulkner > c. < had been so whelmed in astonishment that they had not lifted a finger to aid their chief — C.E.Craddock > < drawn into overmastering passion, whelmed with a rush of joy and triumph — G.A.Wagner > < gathering around to whelm him with arguments > intransitive verb < the river whelmed — Kenneth Rexroth > < the battle lines whelmed and divided — C.P.Aiken > Synonyms: see overpower |
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