Definition of "whelm" []

• To cover with water; submerge. (verb-transitive)
• To overwhelm. (verb-transitive)

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• "But the didlates of calm reafon have been, ovei'whelm'ed by that torrent of ambition, which has boi; ne down the facred barriers of the conflitution, by taking, ad - vantage of the calamity of our gracidus fove -"
• "“Hence am I borne against the rocks; hence 'whelm'd"
• "Good to have a battle on our hands - and, as Shakespeare said - the truth will out tho all the world or 'whelm it."