as in overwhelms
to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress
the news so whelmed them that they were stunned into silence
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overwhelms
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Implementing more change than an organization needs unnecessarily complicates processes, overwhelms employees and increases costs.—
Manoj Balraj,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025 -
This method overwhelms the media and exhausts many Americans who cannot easily absorb so much information at once.—
Jennifer Mercieca,
The Conversation,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Whelms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whelms. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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