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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overwhelm.

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Examples

  • The [spoiler] shadow sex with Wendy [spoiler] was another place where the idea overwhelms the porn and the porn distracts from the idea.

    Comics Stuff 2006

  • That makes Forza 4 a truly massive game, but it never overwhelms, which is why it wins.

    News - chicagotribune.com 2011

  • That kind of overwhelms everything else that happened in that game. ''

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • At night, you can see cities if you're over land and then when you pass into the sunlight you get the blue limb of Earth and then it turns into pink and different colors like that and then when the sun pops up, it's like an instantaneous floodlight in your eyes, it kind of overwhelms you.

    What's the Internet Really Like in Space? | Universe Today 2010

  • STEPHEN SCHONDELMEYER, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: Just a 10 percent increase this year may amount to $20 billion to $25 billion increase in drug spend -- that kind of overwhelms an $8 billion a year savings.

    CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2009 2009

  • That kind of overwhelms an $8 billion a year savings.

    CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2009 2009

  • That kind of overwhelms an $8 billion a year savings.

    CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2009 2009

  • STEPHEN SCHONDELMEYER, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: Just a 10 percent increase this year may amount to $20 billion to $25 billion increase in drug spend -- that kind of overwhelms an $8 billion a year savings.

    CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2009 2009

  • That kind of overwhelms an $8 billion a year savings.

    CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2009 2009

  • That kind of overwhelms an $8 billion a year savings.

    CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2009 2009

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