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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
whelm .
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Examples
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Our arrival at the Yacumama lodge whelms in me, a feeling of anticipation.
Tucker Hassler: A Journey to the Amazon Basin of Peru Tucker Hassler 2010
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I use birth imagery here in part because the emotions seem to be akin in a way; the joy that comes of a great book whelms that painful separation and summary reintroduction of the I.
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Our arrival at the Yacumama lodge whelms in me, a feeling of anticipation.
Tucker Hassler: A Journey to the Amazon Basin of Peru Tucker Hassler 2010
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Despite the hype, I have to admit that Thanksgiving fare generally under-whelms me.
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This government within the government has painted us with a picture presenting us with an image of being saved by Uncle Sam from disaster, but the reality is the Federal Government will actually own all there is in our existence making us slaves to its whelms whenever it chooses.
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Unbelievers and whelmed them, as the rain torrent whelms the waste; and cried out their war cries, till fear get hold of the prowess
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Hear what a grief is mine, what storm of destiny whelms me.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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If, when fortune's wrong with bitter misery whelms thee,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Hear what a grief is mine, what storm of destiny whelms me.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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If, when fortune's wrong with bitter misery whelms thee,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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