whelm
Example Sentences
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You almost wish that the book would occasionally simply whelm you, but of course that’s all that most books do, even good books.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2020
In it his flair for the spectacular, the mod and the grotesque is overwhelming, in ways that admittedly may whelm some more than others.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now we wait simply for Engagement, & hear continual Word that Gen. Gage shall march from out the Town and try to whelm us all.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Such is the fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd: Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er!
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson
Must we behold, with eyes of impotence That universal wrack, even though it whelm These our usurpers in impartial doom Beneath the shards and fragments of the world?
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Clark Ashton Smith
