Usually means: Excessive amount causing loss of control.
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  1. overwhelm: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overwhelm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overwhelm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overwhelm: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overwhelm: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overwhelm, overwhelm: Wordnik
  7. overwhelm: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overwhelm: Wiktionary
  9. overwhelm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overwhelm: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overwhelm: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Overwhelm, overwhelm: Dictionary.com
  13. overwhelm: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. overwhelm: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Overwhelm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. overwhelm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. overwhelm: Rhymezone
  18. overwhelm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. overwhelm: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. overwhelm: Free Dictionary
  21. overwhelm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. overwhelm: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. Overwhelm: The Word Detective
  24. overwhelm: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. overwhelm: Legal dictionary

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  1. overwhelm: Encyclopedia

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  1. Overwhelm: Urban Dictionary

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To engulf, surge over and submerge.
verb:  To overpower, crush.
verb:  To overpower emotionally.
verb:  To cause to surround, to cover.
noun:  The state or condition of being overwhelmed.

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