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      • [ I or T ] old use literary (of water) to flow, or to flow over and cover something or someone : The flowers bloomed and the brook whelmed up from its source. the whelming waters / waves The ocean whelmed them all. Fewer examples Rocked by the waves, the boat was whelmed. They charted the dangerous paths of the whelming ocean.
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      WHELM | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

  2. www.merriam-webster.com · dictionary · whelmWhelm Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    The meaning of WHELM is to turn (something, such as a dish or vessel) upside down usually to cover something : cover or engulf completely with usually disastrous effect. How to use whelm in a sentence.

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  4. dictionary.cambridge.org · us · dictionaryWHELM | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

    whelm verb (AFFECT) [ T ] humorous. to have an effect on someone, usually not a very positive or very negative one: His latest album whelms rather than overwhelms. I was only whelmed by the movie, I have to say. Compare.

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  6. www.oed.com · dictionary · whelm_nwhelm, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...

    There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun whelm. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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  8. www.dictionary.com · browse · whelmWHELM Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com

    Whelm definition: to submerge; engulf.. See examples of WHELM used in a sentence.

  9. en.wiktionary.org · wiki · whelmwhelm - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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    From Middle English whelmen (“to turn over, capsize; to invert, turn upside down”), perhaps from Old English *hwealmnian, a variant of *hwealfnian, from hwealf (“arched, concave, vaulted; an arched or vaulted ceiling”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwalb, from Proto-Germanic *hwalbą (“arch, vault”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelp- (“to curve”). The E...

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    (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: whĕlm, wĕlm, IPA(key): /ʍɛlm/, /wɛlm/
    Rhymes: -ɛlm

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    whelm (third-person singular simple present whelms, present participle whelming, simple past and past participle whelmed) 1. (transitive, archaic) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge. 1.1. Synonyms: overwhelm, (Britain dialectal, Scotland) whemmel 1.2. Antonym: unwhelm 1.1. c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Wind...

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    whelm (plural whelms) 1. (poetic, also figuratively) A surge of water. 1.1. the whelmof the tide 1.1. 2004, Clark Coolidge, chapter XIII, in Mine: The One that Enters the Stories, Great Barrington, Mass.: The Figures, →ISBN, page 75: 1.1.1. I wonder about things and the people between us. The currents, the feedback, and the whelms. The sharp cracks...

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  10. www.etymonline.com · word · whelmwhelm | Etymology of whelm by etymonline

    Jun 5, 2018 · "to call or summon forth or out," 1620s, from French évoquer or directly from Latin evocare "call out, rouse, summon," from assimilated form of ex "out" (see ex-) + vocare "to call," which is related to vox (genitive vocis) "voice" (from PIE root *wekw- "to speak").

  11. www.yourdictionary.com · whelmWhelm Definition & Meaning - YourDictionary

    Origin of Whelm. From Middle English whelmen (“to turn over, capsize; make an arch cover; experience a reversal" ), akin to Middle English whelven (“to cover over, bury; invert; bring to ruin, to move by rolling" ), akin to Old English ahwelfan, ahwylfan (“to cast down, cover over" ), Old English helmian (“to cover" ), akin to Old Saxon ...

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