over-whelmed

as inprostrate
as inrapt
as instunned
as instupefied
as inbeaten
as inthankful
as inthunderstruck
as indestroyed
as ininfested
as inoverthrown
as inoverwhelmed
as inaffected
as inaghast
as indoomed
as indumbfounded
as inagape
as inlick
as inastonish
as inastound
as inoppress
as inovercome
as inoverpower
as inoverrun
as inoverrun
as inovertake
as inoverthrow
as inoverwhelm
as inoverwhelm
as inattack
as inravage
as inruin
as inseize
as inshock
as insink
as inslaughter
as insmother
as instagger
as instun/stupefy
as insubmerge
as insurprise
as intake
as inbeat
as inbedazzle
as inthrash
as inthrow
as intrample
as intriumph
as introunce
as inbemuse
as invanquish
as inwhip
as inwin
as ingang up on
as inboggle
as instun
as inoverload
as insteamroller
as inburden
as incapture
as inoverburden
as instupefy
as inlade
as inpauperize
as insubmerse
as inthresh
as intromp
as inunhorse
as inconfute
as inconsume
as incrush
as incrush
as indaze
as indazzle
as indefeat
as indeluge
as indrown
as indumbfound
as inengulf
as infascinate
as inflabbergast
as inflood
as inglut
as inhit

Synonyms for over-whelmed

adj helpless

Antonyms for over-whelmed

Word Origin & History

early 14c., "to turn upside down, to overthrow," from over- + Middle English whelmen "to turn upside down" (see whelm). Meaning "to submerge completely" is mid-15c. Perhaps the connecting notion is a boat, etc., washed over, and overset, by a big wave. Figurative sense of "to bring to ruin" is attested from 1520s. Related: Overwhelmed; overwhelming; overwhelmingly.

Example Sentences forover-whelmed

His stick was seized and wrenched away, he was over-whelmed by numbers.

The manifestation of God's power in this visitation was such that the young men were over-whelmed.

The butler and the maid were leaving the room, which they must have entered when the ceremony first over-whelmed her.

The rest of the Languedocian people had been over-whelmed with calamity, slaughter, and devastation.