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• v  overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
• v  charge someone with too many tasks
• v  cover completely or make imperceptible
• v  overcome by superior force

• And the show never let politics overwhelm its heart; it used one of the oldest setups in sitcomville (the locked-in-the-storeroom) to have Archie and Meathead bond over the story .

• overpower
• sweep over
• whelm
• overcome
• overtake
• deluge
• flood out
• submerge
• drown
• overmaster

News & Articles

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• Category-by-category preview of Stanley Cup
  The Bruins’ strength is the ability to overwhelm the opponent in the neutral zone, turn the puck over and attack with numbers. The one game the Kings won in their series against the Hawks was predicated on their control of the neutral zone. You can do the math.
  June 12, 2013 - Sports Illustrated
• Innovative Metal Business Cards Give Competitive Edge
  FULLERTON, Calif., June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In an age where digital messages overwhelm consumers, unemployment is at an all-time high, and businesses are working harder than ever to grab market share, ...
  June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Former Open champ McDowell: wet Merion still plenty tough
  Graeme McDowell keeps hearing the predictions that golfers are going to overwhelm the soft course at Merion with low scores. He’s just not buying any of it.
  June 12, 2013 - Philly.com

Quotes

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• Fernando Torres in The Canadian Press
  When only one out of every hundred shipments coming into this country is inspected, when we have some ports where the volume of imports overwhelm the one or two inspectors on the job, then, frankly, we're not keeping faith with the American... Dick Durbin http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Durbin&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF3SHPHVJ-7ryNL9RhkThbfLua42A Washington Post http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/07/AR2007090700987.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFomPq777LlsBJoefuLNNlM_s8KRA Sep 7, 2007 71403 95304 overwhelm We had chances. We didn't score a goal and that was the key. Let's hope it doesn't happen again since that would be odd," Torres said. "The most important thing is not to allow anxiety to overwhelm us if minutes pass and we are not able to...
• President Bush in Guardian Unlimited
  They understand that sensational images are the best way to overwhelm the quiet progress on the ground,Bush said.