Crossword-Solution: WHELM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Whelm | v. t. | To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf. |
| Whelm | v. t. | Fig.: To cover completely, as if with water; to immerse; to overcome; as, to whelm one in sorrows. |
| Whelm | v. t. | To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “WHELM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| engulf entirely with or as if with water | 1 answer |
| To overpower | 1 answer |
| Submerge; engulf | 1 answer |
| Overcome utterly | 1 answer |
| Engulf, old-style | 1 answer |
| Attachment to "over" or "under" | 1 answer |
| "Over" attachment | 1 answer |
| Catch unawares | 7 answers |
| BEATEN OR OVERCOME | 10 answers |
| AFFECTED BY OR OVERCOME WITH WONDER | 10 answers |
| Cover completely | 12 answers |
| Waterlog | 18 answers |
| Suffuse | 23 answers |
| Inundate | 25 answers |
| Knock (over) | 26 answers |
| Engulf | 27 answers |
| Drench | 40 answers |
| Overrun | 42 answers |
| submerge | 42 answers |
| Swamp | 49 answers |
| Overpower | 51 answers |
| Steep | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WHELM (5)
They make my might their porter, they make my house their path, Till I loose my neck from their rudder and whelm them all in my wrath.
Who would fear for self Should ocean rise and whelm the mountain tops, And sun and sky descend upon the earth In universal chaos? Every mind Is bent upon Pompeius, and on Rome.
XXXIX She, fixed and stupid in her wretchedness, Stood on the shifting sand, with ruffled hair: Her hands were joined, her lips were motionless, Her languid eyes upturned, as in despair, Accusing Him on high, that to distress And whelm her, all the fates united were.
CXIV He somewhat to himself returned, and thought How possibly the thing might be untrue: The some one (so he hoped, desired, and sought To think) his lady would with shame pursue; Or with such weight of jealously had wrought To whelm his reason, as should him undo; And that he, whosoe'er the thing had planned, Had counterfeited passing well her hand.
CXXVI As sometimes where they work the golden vein Within Pannonian or Iberian cave, In unexpected ruin whelm the train By impious avarice there condemned to slave, So with the load they lie opprest, with pain A passage can their prisoned spirit have: No less opprest the doughty paynim lay, Pinned to the ground in that disastrous fray.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1917–2023).