Meaning & use
Whelming
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Engulfing or overpowering completely, typically used in older or poetic English to describe being submerged or overcome, as by water or emotion.
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The poem describes waves whelming the shore in an endless tide.
Grief came whelming over her the moment she heard the news.
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The root of the more common word "overwhelm"; "whelm" alone survives mainly in literary or archaic usage.
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