Link Centre Dictionary

overwhelmed

overw·hel·med

UK/ˌəʊvəˈwɛlmd/ US/ˌəʊvəˈʍɛlmd/ fairly common

adjective

1.

rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something

  • “a desk flooded with applications”
  • “felt inundated with work”
  • “too much overcome to notice”
  • “a man engulfed by fear”
  • “swamped by work”

Origin

From overwhelm + -ed.

WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved. Wiktionary content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence.