One entry found for overwhelm.

Entry Word: overwhelm
Function: verb
Text: 1 to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress <just the thought of how much work there is to do overwhelms me>
Synonyms carry away, crush, devastate, floor, oppress, overcome, overmaster, overpower, prostrate, snow under, swamp, whelm
Related Words deluge, drown; confute, defeat, refute; demoralize, distress, disturb, rock, shatter, stagger, unman, unnerve, upset
2 to cover or become filled with a flood <that spring the massive runoff from melting snows overwhelmed the valley> -- see FLOOD