Vocabulary
Overwhelm
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
bury or drown beneath a huge mass of something, especially water.
Urdu meaning
جزیاتی، ڈبو دینا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Yet the bank feels that these shocks, while significant, will not overwhelm the national economy, which stands on a `stronger footing to withstand the negative fallout of the ongoing floods as compared to previous major flood events`.
- Each rain bomb can shatter homes, disrupt livelihood, and overwhelm fragile ecosystems.
- When toxic gases overwhelm him, there is no ambulance; there are only fellow workers who haul his unconscious body out like a sack of waste.
- These floods, caused by intense localised rainfall, strike with little warning and overwhelm encroached waterbodies and drainage systems.
- That such a modest caseload has still managed to overwhelm the prison system speaks volumes about its structural deficiencies.
Synonyms
swamp, submerge, engulf, bury, deluge, flood, inundate, clog, saturate
Antonyms
raise, reinvigorate, reinstate, re-establish
Curator example
“floodwaters overwhelmed hundreds of houses”
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