Definition of whelm Whelm
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We found 8 definitions of whelm from 4 different sources.
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What does whelm mean?
WordNet
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| whelm - overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | ||
| overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, overcome, overtake | ||
| enkindle, elicit, kindle, provoke, evoke, arouse, fire, raise derive by reason; "elicit a solution" | ||
| devastate overwhelm or overpower; "He was devastated by his grief when his son died" | ||
| clutch, get hold of, seize affect; "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unbearable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease" | ||
| kill destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods" | ||
| benight make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | ||
| knock out destroy or break forcefully; "The windows were knocked out" | ||
| stagger to arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall" | ||
| lock become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- whelm (v. t.)
To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf. - whelm (v. t.)
Fig.: To cover completely, as if with water; to immerse; to overcome; as, to whelm one in sorrows. - whelm (v. t.)
To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
Part of speech
🔤- whelm, verb, present, 1st person singular of whelm (infinitive).
- whelm, verb (infinitive).
