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overcome
To get the better of in competition, struggle, etc.; conquer
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  1. To get the better of in competition, struggle, etc.; conquer
  2. To be victorious; win
  3. To overpower, as with emotion; affect deeply:
overthrow
To bring about the downfall, destruction, or ending of, especially by force or concerted action:
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  1. To bring about the downfall, destruction, or ending of, especially by force or concerted action:
  2. To throw or turn over; upset
  3. To bring down from a position of authority or power; topple
conquer
To get possession or control of by or as by winning a war
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  1. To get possession or control of by or as by winning a war
  2. To be victorious; win.
  3. To overcome by physical, mental, or moral force; get the better of; defeat
destroy
To put to death; kill:
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  1. To put to death; kill:
  2. To break up or spoil completely; ruin
  3. To bring about destruction
submerge
To sink or plunge beneath the surface of water, etc.
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  1. To sink or plunge beneath the surface of water, etc.
  2. To place under or cover with water or the like; plunge into water, inundate, etc.
  3. To go under or as if under water.
inundate
To overwhelm with a rush or great amount of anything
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  1. To overwhelm with a rush or great amount of anything
  2. To cover or engulf with a flood; deluge
  3. To cover with water, especially floodwaters.
waste
To pass without being put to use:
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  1. To pass without being put to use:
  2. (Now Rare) To pass or be spent
  3. To use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly.
puzzle
To baffle or confuse mentally by presenting or being a difficult problem or matter.
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  1. To baffle or confuse mentally by presenting or being a difficult problem or matter.
  2. To ponder over a problem in an effort to solve or understand it.
  3. To clarify or solve (something confusing) by reasoning or study:
bewilder
To confuse or befuddle, especially by being complicated or varied.
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  1. To confuse or befuddle, especially by being complicated or varied.
  2. To confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things.
  3. To confuse hopelessly, as by something complicated or involved; befuddle; puzzle
confound
To fail to distinguish; mix up:
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  1. To fail to distinguish; mix up:
  2. To mix up or lump together indiscriminately; confuse
  3. To make (something bad) worse:
deluge
To overwhelm with a large number or amount; swamp:
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  1. To overwhelm with a large number or amount; swamp:
  2. To overrun with water; inundate.
  3. To flood; inundate
drown
To drench thoroughly or cover with a liquid.
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  1. To drench thoroughly or cover with a liquid.
  2. To cover with water; flood; inundate
  3. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
engulf
To plunge, as into a gulf
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  1. To plunge, as into a gulf
  2. To swallow up; overwhelm
  3. To swallow up or overwhelm by or as if by overflowing and enclosing:
flood
To put much or too much water, fuel, etc. on or in
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  1. To put much or too much water, fuel, etc. on or in
  2. To become inundated or submerged:
  3. A temporary rise of the water level, as in a river or lake or along a seacoast, resulting in its spilling over and out of its natural or artificial confines onto land that is normally dry. Floods are usually caused by excessive runoff from precipitation or snowmelt, or by coastal storm surges or other tidal phenomena. &diamf3; Floods are sometimes described according to their statistical occurrence. A fifty-year flood is a flood having a magnitude that is reached in a particular location on average once every fifty years. In any given year there is a two percent statistical chance of the occurrence of a fifty-year flood and a one percent chance of a hundred-year flood .
flush
To drive away with a rapid flow of a liquid:
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  1. To drive away with a rapid flow of a liquid:
  2. To clean, rinse, or empty with a rapid flow of a liquid, especially water:
  3. To flow suddenly and abundantly, as from containment; flood.
inundate
To overwhelm as if with a flood; swamp:
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  1. To overwhelm as if with a flood; swamp:
  2. To cover with water, especially floodwaters.
  3. To cover or engulf with a flood; deluge
overflow
To have a boundless supply; be superabundant.
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  1. To have a boundless supply; be superabundant.
  2. To flow over or across; flood
  3. To spread or cover over; flood.
submerge
To place under or cover with water or the like; plunge into water, inundate, etc.
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  1. To place under or cover with water or the like; plunge into water, inundate, etc.
  2. To go under or as if under water.
  3. To sink or plunge beneath the surface of water, etc.
whelm
To overpower or crush; overwhelm
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  1. To overpower or crush; overwhelm
  2. To submerge, cover, or engulf
  3. To cover with water; submerge.
annihilate
To destroy completely:
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  1. To destroy completely:
  2. To consider or cause to be of no importance or without effect; nullify
  3. To conquer decisively; crush
crush
To press between opposing bodies so as to break, compress, or injure:
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  1. To press between opposing bodies so as to break, compress, or injure:
  2. To break, pound, or grind (stone or ore, for example) into small fragments or powder.
  3. To crumple or rumple:
drub
To beat as with a stick or club; cudgel; thrash
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  1. To beat as with a stick or club; cudgel; thrash
  2. To thrash with a stick.
  3. To defeat soundly in a fight, contest, etc.
overpower
To render imperceptible by means of greater strength, intensity etc.
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  1. To render imperceptible by means of greater strength, intensity etc.
  2. To dominate because of superior or excessive strength; overwhelm
  3. To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to subdue.
smash
To strike with a heavy blow or impact:
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  1. To strike with a heavy blow or impact:
  2. To break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow or collision:
  3. To break or shatter into pieces with noise or violence
steamroller
To move or proceed with overwhelming or crushing force.
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  1. To move or proceed with overwhelming or crushing force.
  2. To move with overwhelming force, or use steamroller tactics
  3. To overwhelm or suppress ruthlessly; crush.
thrash
To move wildly or violently:
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  1. To move wildly or violently:
  2. To strike or beat, especially repeatedly with a flail or stick.
  3. To swing or strike in a manner suggesting the action of a flail:
trounce
To defeat decisively:
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  1. To defeat decisively:
  2. To criticize severely:
  3. To beat; thrash; flog
vanquish
To conquer or defeat in battle; force into submission
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  1. To conquer or defeat in battle; force into submission
  2. To overcome (a feeling, condition, etc.); suppress
  3. To overcome or subdue (an emotion, for example); suppress:
massacre
To kill indiscriminately and mercilessly and in large numbers
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  1. To kill indiscriminately and mercilessly and in large numbers
  2. To kill indiscriminately and wantonly; slaughter.
  3. (Informal) To botch; bungle:
wallop
To move along in a rapid, reckless, awkward way
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  1. To move along in a rapid, reckless, awkward way
  2. To strike with a hard blow:
  3. To move in a heavy or clumsy manner.
clobber
To strike with great force
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  1. To strike with great force
  2. To beat or hit repeatedly; maul
  3. To strike violently and repeatedly; batter or maul.
cream
To add cream to.
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  1. To add cream to.
  2. To separate as cream
  3. To cook with cream or a cream sauce
shellac
(Informal, US) To inflict a heavy defeat; to drub; to batter. Used primarily in sports and political contexts.
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  1. (Informal, US) To inflict a heavy defeat; to drub; to batter. Used primarily in sports and political contexts.
  2. To apply shellac to; cover or varnish with shellac
  3. To coat or finish with shellac.
smear
To apply by spreading or daubing:
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  1. To apply by spreading or daubing:
  2. To spread or daub (a surface, for example) with a sticky, greasy, or dirty substance.
  3. To apply (a ) to, so as to leave a coating, mark, etc.
crush
To put down with force; subdue:
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  1. To put down with force; subdue:
  2. To proceed or move by crowding or pressing:
  3. To be or become crushed:
engulf
To plunge, as into a gulf
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  1. To plunge, as into a gulf
  2. To swallow up or overwhelm by or as if by overflowing and enclosing:
  3. To swallow up; overwhelm
overcome
To get the better of in competition, struggle, etc.; conquer
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  1. To get the better of in competition, struggle, etc.; conquer
  2. To deal with successfully; prevail over; surmount:
  3. To overpower, as with emotion; affect deeply:
overpower
To supply with more power than is needed
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  1. To supply with more power than is needed
  2. To get the better of by superior power; make helpless; subdue
  3. To overcome or vanquish by superior force; subdue.
prostrate
Growing flat along the ground. Creeping jenny, pennyroyal, and many species of ivy have a prostrate growth habit.
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  1. Growing flat along the ground. Creeping jenny, pennyroyal, and many species of ivy have a prostrate growth habit.
  2. To throw or put in a prostrate position; lay flat on the ground
  3. To cause to lie flat:
break
To lessen the force or effect of:
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  1. To lessen the force or effect of:
  2. To cause to give up a habit:
  3. To fail to conform to; violate:
crush
To press between opposing bodies so as to break, compress, or injure:
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  1. To press between opposing bodies so as to break, compress, or injure:
  2. To be or become crushed:
  3. To proceed or move by crowding or pressing:
destroy
To kill
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  1. To kill
  2. To put to death; kill:
  3. To break up or spoil completely; ruin
ruin
To deflower or seduce (a woman) and, often, specif., thereby render her unmarriageable, disgraced, etc.
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  1. To deflower or seduce (a woman) and, often, specif., thereby render her unmarriageable, disgraced, etc.
  2. To bring or reduce to ruin
  3. (Archaic) To go or come to ruin
deluge
To overwhelm with a large number or amount; swamp:
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  1. To overwhelm with a large number or amount; swamp:
  2. To overrun with water; inundate.
  3. To flood; inundate
flood
To pour forth; overflow:
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  1. To pour forth; overflow:
  2. To become inundated or submerged:
  3. A temporary rise of the water level, as in a river or lake or along a seacoast, resulting in its spilling over and out of its natural or artificial confines onto land that is normally dry. Floods are usually caused by excessive runoff from precipitation or snowmelt, or by coastal storm surges or other tidal phenomena. &diamf3; Floods are sometimes described according to their statistical occurrence. A fifty-year flood is a flood having a magnitude that is reached in a particular location on average once every fifty years. In any given year there is a two percent statistical chance of the occurrence of a fifty-year flood and a one percent chance of a hundred-year flood .
inundate
To overwhelm as if with a flood; swamp:
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  1. To overwhelm as if with a flood; swamp:
  2. To cover with water, especially floodwaters.
  3. To cover or engulf with a flood; deluge
swamp
To become swamped; sink in or as in a swamp
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  1. To become swamped; sink in or as in a swamp
  2. An area of low-lying wet or seasonally flooded land, often having trees and dense shrubs or thickets.
  3. To become full of water or sink.
whelm
To overpower or crush; overwhelm
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  1. To overpower or crush; overwhelm
  2. To submerge, cover, or engulf
  3. To cover with water; submerge.
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Sentence Examples

  • Sadness threatened to overwhelm him.

  • All the forces against which he had been struggling united to overwhelm him.

  • More than anything she feared lest the confusion she felt might overwhelm her and betray her as soon as she saw him.

  • Eventually, he reasoned, the hungry hoards would overwhelm the beleaguered food supply.

  • The Arab rule in Spain, which once threatened to overwhelm Europe and was turned back near Tours by Charles Martel, was distinguished by its tolerance and civilization, and lingered on till the 15th century.

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