overwhelm
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overwhelm (3ª persona sing. presente overwhelms, participio presente overwhelming, passato semplice e participio passato overwhelmed)
- distruggere
- sommergere
- (senso figurato) sopraffare emotivamente
- (senso figurato) (spesso al passivo) sovraccaricare di impegni
dal medio inglese overwhelmen, equivalente di over- + whelm
- WordReference.com, Versione on-line Inglese-Italiano
- Il Sansoni, Inglese edizione on-line da "www.corriere.it"
- The Free Dictionary, edizione online
- Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Dictionary versione on-line
- Dictionary.com, lemma overwhelm
- Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary