whelm

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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

The "wakeful Palinurus" of old song Drowsed at the last, and floods his corpse did whelm; But thou hast ever been alert as strong, Pilot who never slumbered at the helm.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 29, 1890 by Various

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 Smith, Clark Ashton