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to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress
- the news so whelmed them that they were stunned into silence
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“Whelm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whelm. Accessed 29 Nov. 2021.
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The first known use of whelm was in the 14th century
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