Usually means: Sufficiently but not excessively overwhelmed.
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  1. whelmed: Merriam-Webster
  2. whelmed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. whelmed: Vocabulary.com
  4. whelmed: Wordnik
  5. whelmed: Wiktionary
  6. whelmed: Dictionary.com
  7. Whelmed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Whelmed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. whelmed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. whelmed: FreeDictionary.org
  11. whelmed: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. Whelmed: World Wide Words

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whelmed: Legal dictionary

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  1. whelmed: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (whelm)

verb:  (transitive, archaic) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To ruin or destroy.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.
noun:  (poetic, also figuratively) A surge of water.
noun:  A wooden drainpipe, a hollowed out tree trunk, turned with the cavity downwards to form an arched watercourse.
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