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as in devastated
to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress
just the thought of how much work there is to do overwhelms me
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as in flooded
to cover with a flood
that spring the massive runoff from melting snows overwhelmed the valley
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Recent Examples of overwhelmed
Julianna Mejia,
Kansas City Star,
30 June 2026
Atmospheric and lush, Full Bloom is the story of Iris, so overwhelmed by life that only a miracle could set her free.
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Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
30 June 2026
Christina Cardona,
USA Today,
30 June 2026
After that first game, they were overwhelmed by the quality of both Egypt and Belgium, losing comprehensively to both.
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Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
30 June 2026
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Adjective
While locals are excited to have the fiesta in their backyard, one of the few Colombian restaurants in the city is feeling overwhelmed.
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Julianna Mejia,
Kansas City Star,
30 June 2026
Atmospheric and lush, Full Bloom is the story of Iris, so overwhelmed by life that only a miracle could set her free.
—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
30 June 2026
Verb
The surprise left her mother, Chanel Santillan, overwhelmed with emotion and gratitude.
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Christina Cardona,
USA Today,
30 June 2026
After that first game, they were overwhelmed by the quality of both Egypt and Belgium, losing comprehensively to both.
—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
30 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overwhelmed
Adjective
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Fido was fine, if a little bewildered, and in February 1973, the board lifted its book bans.
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At the risk of sounding less like a columnist and more like a bewildered bystander … what the heck happened?
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Earlier that day, Contreras had broken down in tears while talking about the deadly earthquakes that devastated his native Venezuela.
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Carr, who has spent decades documenting South Florida's Indigenous history, said the region's Native population had been devastated long before the American Revolution.
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Through the risk of lightning, sticky humidity and a winding line filled with thousands of chanting fans, Argentine fans flooded Bayfront Park with a sea of blue jerseys.
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Social media was flooded with images and footage of guests making the pilgrimage to MSG.
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This staggered release marks a shift in Amazon MGM Studios' streaming strategy.
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That came on May 7 before a staggered series of price drops tempered by price-hike rebounds over the last seven weeks amid on-again and off-again peace talks in the Middle East.
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The Knicks overcame several double-digit point deficits to win the 2026 NBA championship, their first in 53 years.
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Heide Hafner, Miss Subways 1976, overcame obstacles like sexism to earn her pilot's license.
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With no energy available to warm the planet to these temperatures, the team reasoned that the temperature must be a residual effect of prior warming either from being engulfed by the red giant or during an inward migration.
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Polls show Democrats are the favorites to retake Congress heading into November, but the party is engulfed at the moment by a fierce debate about its ideologicl direction.
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And when Cape Verde’s Deroy Duarte evened the score with a right footed shot from a difficult angle at the 59-minute mark, the stunned stadium went silent, minus two small spirited clots of Cape Verde fans in the East end zone seats.
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Fans jumped up and down after Folarin Balogun punched in what seemed to be the game’s first goal near the 31-minute mark, then expressed stunned disbelief when the striker was deemed offsides.
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Often the materials are crushed, milled, then reused directly on-site at the job where they were removed.
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But most of those indigenous sites are inaccessible to the public, or they have been buried and crushed under the foundations of new skyscrapers and development.
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“Overwhelmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overwhelmed. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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