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overwhelming 音标拼音: [ ,ovɚw'ɛlmɪŋ] [ ,ovɚhw'ɛlmɪŋ] a. 势不可挡的,占压倒优势的 势不可挡的,占压倒优势的 overwhelming adj 1: so strong as to be irresistible; " an overpowering need for solitude"; " the temptation to despair may become overwhelming"; " an overwhelming majority" [ synonym: { overpowering}, { overwhelming}] 2: very intense; " politics is his consuming passion"; " overwhelming joy" [ synonym: { consuming}, { overwhelming}] Overwhelming \ O` ver* whelm" ing\, a. Overpowering; irresistible. -- { O` ver* whelm" ing* ly}, adv. [ 1913 Webster]
Overwhelm \ O` ver* whelm"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Overwhelmed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Overwhelming}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly. [ 1913 Webster] The sea overwhelmed their enemies. -- Ps. lxxviii. 53. [ 1913 Webster] Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. -- Ps. lv. 5. [ 1913 Webster] Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o' erwhelm them. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Gaza yet stands; but all her sons are fallen, All in a moment overwhelmed and fallen. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To project or impend over threateningly. [ 1913 Webster] His louering brows o' erwhelming his fair sight. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To cause to surround, to cover. -- Papin. [ 1913 Webster] 132 Moby Thesaurus words for " overwhelming": absolute, adducible, admissible, agitating, amazing, astonishing, astounding, attestative, attestive, authentic, awe- inspiring, awesome, based on, bewildering, breathtaking, burdensome, certain, charged, circumstantial, cliff- hanging, conclusive, confounding, convincing, crushing, cumulative, damning, decisive, determinative, devastating, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, documentary, documented, electric, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, exciting, exhilarating, eye- opening, eye- witness, factual, final, firsthand, formidable, founded on, galvanic, grounded on, heady, hearsay, heart- expanding, heart- stirring, heart- swelling, heart- thrilling, impenetrable, implicit, impregnable, impressive, incontestable, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, indomitable, inexpugnable, inflammatory, insuperable, intoxicating, invincible, inviolable, invulnerable, irrefutable, irresistible, jarring, jolting, maddening, material, mind- blowing, mind- boggling, monumental, moving, nuncupative, overcoming, overmastering, overmatching, overpowering, perturbing, piquant, presumptive, probative, prodigious, provocative, provoking, ravishing, reliable, resistless, significant, soul- stirring, spectacular, spirit- stirring, staggering, startling, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, stunning, stupefying, suggestive, sure, surprising, suspenseful, suspensive, symptomatic, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, troubling, unassailable, unbearable, unbeatable, unconquerable, uncontrollable, unendurable, unsettling, unsubduable, unsurmountable, unyielding, upsetting, valid, weighty
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