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overwhelming

verb , present participle of overwhelm

Synonyms and Antonyms of overwhelming

1 to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress

just the thought of how much work there is to do overwhelms me

Synonyms of overwhelming

crushing, devastating, flooring, grinding (down), oppressing, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, prostrating, snowing under, swamping, whelming

Words Related to overwhelming

deluging, drowning, sinking

confuting, defeating, refuting

breaking, demoralizing, distressing, disturbing, rocking, shattering, staggering, throwing, unmanning, unnerving, upsetting

2 to cover with a flood

that spring the massive runoff from melting snows overwhelmed the valley

Synonyms of overwhelming

deluging, drowning, engulfing, flooding, gulfing, inundating, overflowing, submerging, submersing, swamping

Words Related to overwhelming

avalanching, smothering

overcoming, overrunning

flowing, flushing, gushing, pouring, sluicing, spouting, spurting, streaming

dousing (also dowsing), drenching, soaking, wetting

Near Antonyms of overwhelming

dehydrating, drying, parching

Antonyms of overwhelming

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