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Määritelmät
Verbi
- (transitive, archaic) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
- (transitive, obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
- (transitive, obsolete) To ruin or destroy.
- (intransitive, archaic) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.
Substantiivi
- (poetic, also, figuratively) A surge of water.
- A wooden drainpipe, a hollowed out tree trunk, turned with the cavity downwards to form an arched watercourse.
Esimerkit
- Give fire; she is my prize, or ocean whelm them all!
- Then ſhall the paſſenger too late deplore / The whelming billow and the faithless oar.
- Deep-whelm′d beneath, in vast sepulchral caves, / Oblivion dwells amid unlabell′d graves;
- 1998, Madelyn Roeder Camrud, Under the Whelming Tide: The 1997 Flood of the Red River of the North.
- Hear, lest the whelming weight of crime / Wreck us with life in view;
- Balls made of Horſe-dung and laid in a Room will do the ſame if they are new made; by which means you may whelm ſome things over them and keep them there.
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