Whelm

[hwelm]

Definition

(v. t.) To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.

(v. t.) Fig.: To cover completely, as if with water; to immerse; to overcome; as, to whelm one in sorrows.

(v. t.) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.

Typed by Ferris

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Overwhelm.

Checker: Roy

Definition

v.t. to cover completely: to plunge deep: to overburden: to ruin destroy.—v.i. to pass over in such a way as to submerge.

Checked by Lemuel