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Definition: Overwhelm |
OverwhelmVerb1. Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli. 2. Charge someone with too many tasks. 3. Cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech". 4. Overcome by superior force. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "overwhelm" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references) |
Synonyms: OverwhelmSynonyms: deluge (v), drown (v), flood out (v), overcome (v), overmaster (v), overpower (v), overtake (v), submerge (v), sweep over (v), whelm (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Destruction | Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume. |
Excitation | Absorb, rivet the attention; sink into the mind, sink into the heart; prey on the mind, distract; intoxicate; overwhelm, overpower; bouleverser, upset, turn one's head. |
Redundancy | Verb: superabound, overabound; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark; (go beyond); surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Overwhelm |
| English words defined with "overwhelm": astonishing, astounding ♦ devastate ♦ Indrench, Ingulf ♦ kill, knock out, knock-down ♦ Overpress ♦ powerful ♦ shout down, stagger, staggering, steamroll, steamroller, stupefying, sweep away, sweep off ♦ To break down, To break the heart. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "overwhelm": Adultery ♦ Clay ♦ deluge water system ♦ Entrails ♦ Lightning ♦ major manageable accident, Morning ♦ Tarantula ♦ Whirlwind. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "overwhelm": Indrench. (references) |
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Screenplays | You overwhelm me. (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus) If you live your life in anticipation of doom and the certainty of it; if you know it'll find you and overwhelm you, why fight it? (The Hunger; writing credit: Gerald Wexler) | |
Clever | Fear doesn't overwhelm you; you let fear overwhelm you. (references; author: unknown) | |
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O.m. Mitchell | The Bible furnishes the only fitting vehicle to express the thoughts that overwhelm us when contemplating the stellar universe. |
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Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | If however they become divided or falter in their duty and if these all-important years are allowed to slip away then indeed catastrophe may overwhelm us all. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Those in treatment should be segregated from the general prison population, so that the "prison culture" does not overwhelm progress toward recovery. (references) | |
Business | Also, with China's pending accession to World Trade Organization, additional market opportunities are expected to become overwhelm. (references) | |
Economic History | Equatorial Guinea | Local elections in May 2000 saw the PDGE overwhelm its rivals once again, winning a clean sweep of all major municipalities. (references) |
China | Enforcement: Large-scale violations of intellectual property rights in China, including counterfeiting and smuggling, often overwhelm enforcement efforts. (references) | |
Vietnam | Vietnam's enormous needs have largely been financed by multilateral and bilateral ODA up until now, but the project wish list threatens to overwhelm donors. (references) | |
Travel | Latvia | It is not uncommon for groups of juvenile pickpockets to attempt to overwhelm their victim. (references) |
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| "Overwhelm" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 83.87% of the time. "Overwhelm" is used about 155 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 83.87% | 130 | 28,019 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.84% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 155 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
overwhelm | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "overwhelm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | trullos (befuddle, bewilder, daze, freak, intoxicate, stultify, stun, stupefy), trondit (appal, appall, concuss, rattle, shake, shake up, shock, stagger, stir, touch), shastis (abash, discountenance, disorient, disorientate, mystify, perplex, wilder), pushtoj (carry, conquer, creep over, enfold, engross, envelop, fold, hog, invade, jump, obsess, overcome, overreach, overrun, overtake, pervade, possess, reach, reduce, reign, rush back, seize, smite, straddle, sweep, take, take a fancy to, take possession of), hutoj (abash, baffle, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, dash, disarray, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, disorient, disorientate, distract, floor, flummox, mystify, perplex, pose, puzzle, wilder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قهر (beat, compulsion, conquer, crush, defeat, defeating, force, get the better of, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpower, subdual, subdue, subjugate, subjugation, tame, vanquish), غمر (deluge, douse, dunk, engulf, float, flood, flow, gulf, immerse, immersion, inundate, inundation, load, overflow, sluice, souse, submerge, suffuse, swamp, wash), غلب (defeat, overmaster, overpower, predominate, prevail, prostrate, subdue), سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, tread, triturate, trituration), إبتلع (bolt, engulf, gulf, gulp, pouch, swallow, swig, swoop), أربك (baffle, bamboozle, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bother, buffalo, confound, confuse, demoralize, discompose, disconcert, disorientate, embarrass, embrangle, entangle, floor, fluster, fox, fret, fuddle, gravel, molest, muckrake, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, perplex, pose, put out, puzzle, ravel, show up, squirm, stop, stumble, stump, vex). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | смазвам (bow down, grease, jam, lubricate, mop up, oil, overbear, prostrate, pulverize, slush, smash, smear, squelch, steamroller, tread down, tread under, unstring, weigh down, whelm), разбивам (agitate, beat, beat up, blank, blast, blight, break, break down, break in pieces, break to pieces, burst open, dash, deflate, disrupt, hack, kick in, mill, pry open, scatter, shatter, smash, smash in, smash up, split off, stamp, whip, whip up, wreck), отрупвам (clutter, heap, heap smth. up, heap up, pile, ply, smother, snow under), обърквам (abash, addle, baffle, bedevil, befuddle, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, disjoint, dislocate, distract, embarrass, embroil, flatten, flummox, fluster, foil, fuddle, gravel, jumble, maze, mess about, mess around, mess up, muddle, muff, muss, nonplus, obfuscate, perplex, pose, put off, put out, puzzle, sew up, snarl, stonker, throw out, tumble, vex, wilder), надвивам (drub, fight down, fight off, overbear, overpower, pip, thrash, vanquish, worst), затрупвам (encumber, immerse), затруднявам (beat, complicate, embarrass, encumber, hamper, hinder, nonplus, put out, stick, straiten, stump, trouble), завладявам (carry, conquer, devour, engage, engross, force, invade, obsess, overcome, overreach, overtake, prepossess, seize, take over, take possession of), поразявам (amaze, astound, attaint, defeat, destroy, dismay, flabbergast, impress, plague, smite, stare, strike down, wow), изумявам (amaze, petrify, stupefy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 淹没 (Deluged, Deluging, Drown, Drowned, Drowning, overwhelmed, Overwhelming, submerge, submerged, submerging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zdrtit (devastate), zaplavit (flood, glut, inundate, overflow, snow under, submerge, suffuse), podrobit (remit, subdue, subject, undergo), přemoci (conquer, defeat, fight down, master, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpower, prostrate, reduce, stifle, surmount, swallow, vanquish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verpletteren (crush, flood, shatter, smash), overstelpen (flood), bedelven (flood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | superŝuti (flood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پایمال کردن (Inculcate, Override, Suppress, Trample), مستغرق دراندیشه شدن , مضمحل کردن (Overthrow, Overturn), غوطه ورساختن (Abyss, Engulf, Plunge, Submerge), سراسرپوشاندن , دست پاچه کردن (Confuse, Disconcert, Embarrass), درهم شکستن (Breakdown, Crash, Force, Scrunch, Smash, Vanquish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vallata (annex, capture, occupy, overcome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | combler. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | überwältigen (force, overawe, overbear, overcome, overpower, subdue, subjugate, submit, to overbear, to overmaster, to overpower, to overwhelm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατακλύζω (bombard, deluge, flood, flush, inundate, overrun, pack, shower, swamp, whelm), καταβάλλω (bear down, debilitate, defeat, defray, exert, overbear, overcome, overpower, quash, quell, subdue, vanquish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | למחוץ (bruise, crumple, crush, mangle, maul, smite, squash, wound), ל"מם (confound, daze, dumbfound, stun), ל"כ יע (humble, overpower, quell, subdue, subject, subjugate, subordinate), ל"ציף (deluge, flood, glut, inundate, overflow, sluice, swamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elnyom (ground, oppress, quell, quench, repress, ride, throttle, to bully, to coerce, to drown out, to grain down, to grain sg under one's heel, to grind, to hold down, to inhibit, to keep down, to keep under, to mask, to overwhelm, to put down, to quash, to repress, to stifle, to suppress, to tread down, to victimize, trample), elborít (overran, overrun, suffuse, to engulf, to enshroud, to mantle, to overrun, to overwhelm, to suffuse), eláraszt (deluge, engulf, flood, flush, infest, inundate, invade, rain, sluice, swamp, swarm, to deluge, to drug, to engulf, to flood, to flush, to glut, to infest, to inundate, to load, to overwhelm, to pelt, to perfuse, to sluice, to smother, to submerge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | travolgere (run over, steamroller, sweep away), subissare, sopraffare (knock out, overbear, overcome, overpower, vanquish), sommergere (flood, overrun, sink, submerge, swamp), seppellire (Bury, entomb, inter), schiacciare (cave, clash, crack, crepitate, crush, jam, mash, pinch, press, push down, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, swat), distruggere (abolishes, blast, consume, dash, destroy, exterminate, kill, nip, obliterate, quash, rase, raze, shatter, shoot down, smash, smash up, tear apart, undo, unmake, wreck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 圧' (overpower, overwhelming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あっとう (overpower, overwhelming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 압도하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cur fo chosh (get under, reduce, rid, subdue, suppress, suppression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | overwhelmay oprimir (bow, bully, burden, cumber, hold down, load, oppress, over the counter, overbear, overlay, pinch, press, weight, whelm, yoke), submergir (drown, enhance, immerse, plunge, submerge, whelm), soterrar (whelm), sobrecarregar (burden, encumbrance, flood, freight, overburden, overcharge, overcrowd, overleaf, overload capacity, overweight, saddle, supercharge, tax, weight), esmagar (bash, Basil, Bray, break, bruise, crush, jam, kibble, lead on, mash, meal, pound, press, pulverize, shatter, smash, squash, squelch, suppress, triturate, whelm), dominar por completo, destruir (blast, butcher, consume, defeat, demolish, depredate, destroy, devour, dilapidate, douse, eat crow, end, explode, extinguish, finished, havoc, impaired, kill the goose that lays golden eggs, mine, obliteration, override, poison, puncture, quash, quench, rase, ravage, raze, reave, reive, ruin, sabotage, shatter, slay, subvert, tear down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wrack, wreck), dar muita importância, confundir (addle, astonish, astound, baffle, befog, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, confusing, confute, daze, dazzle, disarray, disconcert, distracted, dizzy, dumbfound, embarrass, embrasure, embroil, flabbergast, floor, flummox, flurry, fluster, fog, gravel, interfuse, intermingle, jumble, maze, mistake for, mix up, moider, muddle, muddy, Mull, nonplus, obfuscate, obscure, perplex, put out, puzzle, rattle, Ravel, stagger), cobrircomabundáncia, cobrir completamente. (various references) nimici (annihilate, bear, blight, crush, cut, dash, destroy, do smb. in, exterminate, extinguish, kill, raze, scathe, smash, undo, unmake, wipe out, wither), distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck), copleşi nimereşte, copleşi (crush, flood, heap, invade, load, overcome, overpower, pelt, prostrate, shower, smother, stun, whelm). (various references) сокрушать (quash, quell), губить (play havoc, play hell, play the devil, play the mischief, ruin, ulcerate), ошеломлять (bemuse, daze, flabbergast, perplex, stun), овладевать (come, gain possession, overreach, overtake, possess), заливать (flood, overflow, suffuse, swamp, whelm). (various references) sluig (engulph, swallow). (various references) zatrpati (cover, fill in), zasuti (bestrew, fill in, fire, pour, shower), smlaviti, skrhati (crush, shatter), razbiti (break, break down, bust up, crack, crash, shatter, smash), preneraziti (astound, give the willies). (various references) enterrar (bury, entomb, flood, forget, grave, inter, plough under, thrust, touch down). (various references) överväldiga (dazzle, knock out, overpower, stun, unman), översvalla. (various references) mahçup etmek (bring into contempt, make smb. feel small, put smb. to confusion, put smb. to shame, scandalize, shame), kaplamak (back, bestrew, canopy, carpet, case, clothe, coat, cover, encrust, envelop, face, fair, film, film over, fleece, hang, incrust, infest, line, overgrow, overlap, overspread, plate, recap, revet, sheathe, sheet, shield, smother in, smother with, suffuse, take, thread, upholster, veneer, wreathe), kahretmek (blow, confound, crush, oppress), ezmek (Bray, comminute, crunch, crush, domineer, grind, hold down, knock over, mangle, mash, oppress, overbear, pound, pulverize, quash, run down, run over, scrunch, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, squish, stamp, stave in, steamroller, stump, swat, trample, trample down, tread, tread under foot, tyrannize, weigh down), boğmak (asphyxiate, Burke, choke, drown, glut, inundate, jugulate, smother, smother with, stifle, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, throttle, whelm), alt etmek (bear the bell, beat, beat smb. hollow, best, carry away the bell, get the better of, score off, score smb. off, stymie, supplant, top, worst). (various references) захаращувати чимсь, поглинати (absorb, canker, consume, devour, eat away, engulf, gulf, immerse, lap up, merge, mop up, occupy, suck in, swallow), придушити (squelch), приголомшувати (appal, appall, astound, bemuse, daunt, daze, dizzy, doze, dumbfound, jar, stun), заливати (bathe, fill in, overflow, steep, suffuse, swamp, wash, wash down), занапащати (pickle, ruin), завалювати чимсь, подолати (bear down, cope, cope with, outdo, overbear, overcome, overpower, whop), затоплювати (deluge, inundate, overflow, overrun, sink, snow under, submerge, submerse), сповнювати, оволодівати (acquire, engross, master), охоплювати (blanket, comprehend, comprise, cover, cut across, encircle, grip, grow on, lap, overtake, prepossess, rap, wrap), вражати (amaze, appal, appall, bemuse, concuss, daze, dazzle, impress, shine out, shock), розбити (drub), розоряти (beggar, break, devastate, flatten out, impoverish), розтрощити (crash), закидати запитаннями (besiege with questions). (various references) llethu (oppress, overlie, overpower, smother). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | degluttiamus, degluttiat, degluttiret, degluttissent, degluttivit, mergeretur, merserint, obruent, obruentur, obruerunt, obruet, obruetur, obrutus, oppressa, oppresserat, oppresserunt, oppressi, oppressisti, oppressit, oppresso, oppressos, oppressum, oppressura, opprimamus, opprimantur, opprimaris, opprimas, opprimat, opprimatis, opprimebant, opprimens, opprimentes, opprimere, opprimerent, opprimes, opprimet, opprimetur, opprimi, opprimitur, opprimo oppressi oppressum, opprimunt, premas, premens, premerent, premit, premo, premunt, pressi, pressit, pressura, pressurae, pressuram. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | whelmen. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 6, Verse 27 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Plhn oti ep' orfanw epipiptete enallesqe de epi filw umwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Super pupillum inruitis et subvertere nitimini amicum vestrum |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Yes, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend. |
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| Language | Job Chapter 6, Verse 27 |
| Albanian | Ju do të hidhnit në short edhe një jetim dhe do të hapnit një gropë për mikun tuaj. |
| Cebuano | Oo, kamo morifa tungod sa mga ilo, Ug igabaligya ang inyong mga higala. |
| Croatian | Nad sirotom kocku zar biste bacali i sa prijateljem trgovali svojim? |
| Danish | Selv om en faderløs kasted I Lod og købslog om eders Ven. |
| Dutch | Ook werpt gij u op een wees; en gij graaft tegen uw vriend. |
| Finnish | Orvostakin te heittäisitte arpaa ja hieroisitte kauppaa ystävästänne. |
| French | Vous accablez un orphelin, Vous persécutez votre ami. |
| German | Ihr fielet wohl über einen armen Waisen her und grübet eurem Nachbarn Gruben. |
| Haitian Creole | Konsa tou, ou ta rive jwe lajan sou tèt timoun san papa. Ou ta fè lajan sou tèt bon zanmi ou. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Bahkan anak yatim piatu kamu undikan nasibnya, teman karibmu kamu curangi untuk menjadi kaya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwasanya kamu menggali-gali lawan seorang sahabatmu. |
| Italian | Anche sull'orfano gettereste la sorte e a un vostro amico scavereste la fossa. |
| Maori | Ae ra, e mea ana koutou ki te maka rota mo nga pani, ki te mea i to koutou hoa hei taonga hokohoko. |
| Norwegian | Endog om en farløs kunde I kaste lodd og kjøpslå om eders venn. |
| Rumanian | Voi nqpqstuiyi pe orfan, prigoniyi pe prietenul vostru. |
| Russian | чЩ ОБ Б"БЕФЕ ОБ УЙТПФХ Й ТПЕФЕ СНХ "ТХЗХ ЧБЫЕНХ. |
| Spanish | Vosotros seríais capaces de rifar a un huérfano y de especular sobre vuestro amigo. |
| Swedish | Då kasten I väl också lott om den faderlöse, då lären I väl köpslå om eder vän! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "overwhelm": overwhelmed, overwhelming, overwhelmingly, overwhelms. (additional references) | |
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"Overwhelm" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Oberheim, oberwelt, overhelm, overwelm, overwhelme. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "overwhelm" (pronounced ō'verwe"lm or ō'verhwe"lm) |
| 3 | -e" l m | elm, helm, realm. |
| 3 | -e" l m | elm, helm, realm. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-l-m-o-r-v-w" | |
-1 letter: whomever. | |
-2 letters: eelworm, however, whoever. | |
-3 letters: howler, mewler, remove, rewove, wherve, wolver. | |
-4 letters: elver, helve, hewer, homer, hovel, hover, lever, lover, lower, merle, mohel, morel, mover, mower, rehem, revel, rowel, vomer, vowel, vower, wheel, whelm, where, whole, whore, whorl. | |
-5 letters: ever, ewer, heel, helm, helo, heme, here, herl, herm, hero, hoer, hole, holm, home, hove. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-l-m-o-r-v-w" | |
+1 letter: overwhelms. | |
+2 letters: overwhelmed. | |
+3 letters: overwhelming. | |
+5 letters: overwhelmingly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 76 65 72 77 68 65 6C 6D |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ...- . .-. .--. .... . .-.. -- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110111 01101000 01100101 01101100 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O v e r w h e l m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0076 0065 0072 0077 0068 0065 006C 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)498871848974717879 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albánský, Albanees, albanialainen, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, 알"니아, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arabialainen, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, 아라비아, Arabish, arabic, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarialainen, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, 불가리아, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | kinez, الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, китайски, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, Sheenish, Sheenagh, chinês, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, 체", Sheckagh, Sheckish, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | holandez, هولندي, اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, "ול "י, holland, olandese, 네덜란", Ollanish, Germaanish, holandês, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, holländsk, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський |
Esperanto | vortaro, difino, traduko | الاسبرانتو لغة دولية, есперанто, 世界语, esperanton, espéranto, εσπεράντο, אספר טו, eszperanto, eszperantó, エスキモー犬 , エスペラント , эсперанто, esperanto, esperanto dili |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, фински език, фински, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי י, finn, finlandese, 핀란", Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzský, francouzština, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , "랑스, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , nìmec, nìmecký, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, Almaenwr |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, 希腊语, 希臘語 , řek, řecký, řeètina, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова, Groegwr |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | hebraishte, اليهودية, اللغة العبرية, يهودي, عبري, العبرية, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, 西伯来, 希伯來語 , hebrejský, hebrejec, hebrejka, hebrejština, joods, Hebreeuws, juutalainen, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, ebreo, ebraico, ヘブライ語 , ヘブライ", Ewagh, Ewnish, Ew, hebreu, hebraico, limba ebraicã, izraelit, evreu, evreiesc, ebraic, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, hebreo, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk, musevi, ibranice, ibrani, іудей, іврит, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, "врейський, "врей, Hebreaidd, Hebraeg |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , maïarský, maïarština, maïar, Hongaarse, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italský, italština, ital, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, איטלקית, איטלקי, olasz, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | japonez, يابانية, ياباني, اليابانية, اللغة اليابانية, японски език, японци, японски, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japonský, japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, יפ י, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, Shapaanagh, Shapaanish, japonês, japonezã, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, japansk, Japonca, японська мова, японський, японка, японець |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | japonez, يابانية, ياباني, اليابانية, اللغة اليابانية, японски език, японци, японски, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japonský, japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, יפ י, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, Shapaanagh, Shapaanish, japonês, japonezã, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, japansk, Japonca, японська мова, японський, японка, японець |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | korean, اللغة الكورية, كوري جنوبي, كوري شمالي, كوري, корейски език, корейски, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , korejec, korejština, korejský, Koreaans, coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, koreai, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, limba coreeanã, coreean, кореец, корейский, korejski, korejski jezik, koreanac, coreano, koreansk, kore'li, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manština, manský, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugalský, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, 罗马尼亚语, rumunský, rumunština, Roemeens, romanialainen, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, 루마니아, Roomainagh, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, rumänsk, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, ruština, ruský, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Scottish | foclair, abardair, faclair, briathrachan | skocez, шотландски, 苏 兰, skotský, Schots, skotlantilainen, écossais, schottisch, σκωτσέζικο, σκωτικόσ, skót, scozzese, 스"틀랜", Albinagh, escocês, scoţian, шотландский, škotski jezik, škotski, škotlanđani, escocés, skotsk, iskoçyalı, шотланський, шотландський діалект, шотландці |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, 세르보크로아티아, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, španìlský, španìlština, Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | suedez, اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turecký, tureètina, turkkilainen, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | ukrainisht, ukrainas, أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, الأوكراني, украинец, украински език, 乌克兰, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, Oekraïens, ukraino, ukraina, اهل اوکرانی درکشورشوروی , ukrainalainen, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, Ookraanagh, Ookraanish, ucraniano, ucrainean, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець |
Welsh | geirlyfr, geiriadur, diffiniad, darnodiad, trosiad | shkel premtimin, populli i uellsit, ik pa paguar, i uellsit, gjuha e uellsit, تهرب من دفع الرهان, الولزية لغة إقليم ويلز, ويلزي, уелски, уелски език, не си плащам дълга, измъквам се от задължение, 威"士, 威爾士語 , waleský, waleština, Wels, gallois, walisisch, ουάλλοσ, ουαλλικόσ, δεν πληρώνω τα οφειλόμενα, walesi, gallese, Bretnagh, galês, limba velşã, velş, din ţara galilor, уэльский, velšanin, podvaliti, velški jezik, velški, galés, walesisk, galler ile ilgili, gal dili, bahisleri ödemeden kaçmak, ödemeden kaçmak, sözünü tutmamak, şartları yerine getirmemek, у"льський, не віддати гроші, валлійська мова, валлійський, валлійці, Cymreig |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglicky, anglan, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, inglese, 영국, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, englezesc, английский, beurla, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова, Saesneg |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Bible Trace 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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