whelm

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
2. verb To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
3. verb To ruin or destroy.
4. verb To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.
5. noun A surge of water.

   the whelm of the tide

6. noun A wooden drainpipe, a hollowed out tree trunk, turned with the cavity downwards to form an arched watercourse.
7. verb To emotionally affect at an intensity in between underwhelm and overwhelm; to just satisfy or just meet expectations.

Similar words

overwhelm overpower overcome overtake sweep over whemmel engulf submerge swallow up incube

Often followed by

the them him me of us her my in

Word family

whelmed whelming whelms