| 单词 | overpower |
| 释义 | overpower 1. < war overpowered, dragged out into the open — American Guide Series: Tennessee > < by a margin of 15,000 votes … was overpowered by the winner — Time > 2. < when hunger overpowers him — J.G.Frazer > < the odor overpowered him > < his instinct for heroics overpowered him — Gerald Beaumont > 3. < never overpower your boat — Peter Heaton > Synonyms: < a sentry overpowered by the attackers > < resistance overpowered in a few days > < overpowered by the show of wealth around him > overwhelm may suggest submerging, overcoming, vanquishing, destroying, or overpowering in the manner of a breaking ocean wave < Scotland was overwhelmed by the ice sheets of the great Ice Age — L.D.Stamp > < it was between the inner and outer shoal that disaster overwhelmed the lifeboat and her crew — G.G.Carter > < his hopeless endeavor to stem the rising flood of irrationalism and slave-spirit that were soon to overwhelm the great Roman world — Norman Douglas > whelm is a close synonym for overwhelm in its dire uses < it seemed as though the entire town might go — as though the sea would whelm houses, vessels, and town together — Mary H. Vorse > < this report reached his periwigged Excellency about the time that his own city was being overwhelmed by earthquake; he had little time for ancient ruins when his own was whelmed with destruction — V.W.Von Hagen > engulf suggests swallowing up as by rushing waters, or catching, burying, entangling, or covering hopelessly so that extrication is impossible < Bonnet thought that periodically the world was engulfed by a major catastrophe, the last one being the Mosaic flood — S.F.Mason > < the doom of madness that had engulfed her aunt — Edith Sitwell > deluge implies a concentrated massing, as of torrential rain, that overwhelms; it is usually used figuratively < the speaker was deluged with questions > < as Yellow Cabs drove up with strikebreakers they were deluged with rotten fruit from the trucks — R.M.Lovett > swamp, originally in the passive suggesting entanglement or submersion in a swamp, now is close to deluge, although it may indicate more hopeless entangling or oppressing < a sea broke over them, and would have swamped the Otter, had she not been the best of sea boats — Charles Kingsley > < the work rose about him like a tide. It swamped his days — Mary Austin > < the mind is swamped by the bewildering complexity of directions — R.W.Southern > |
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