Verb (used with object) : whelmed by misfortune. From Dictionary.com.
“Hence am I borne against the rocks; hence 'whelm'd. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference
Could whelm your halls and temples where they stand. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
The exceeding greatness of the promise seems to over-whelm us. From Wordnik.com. [The Kneeling Christian] Reference
He was cautious, afraid that the magic would over - whelm him. From Wordnik.com. [The Elf Queen of Shannara]
The grotesque injustice of it all threatened to over-whelm Ken Reeve. From Wordnik.com. [Decision at Doona]
And I loose my neck from their service and whelm them all in my wrath. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
Somewhere a volcano may whelm a city, earth shake its skin like an old horse. From Wordnik.com. [A Poem Of Hope and Liberation from a Legacy of Shame] Reference
The way he interprets that picture, however, is up to him. whelm and destroy him. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Gate]
A thick mass of aerial roots threatened to over-whelm an atmospheric monitoring panel. From Wordnik.com. [The Howling Stones]
Far be it from the Judge of all the earth to whelm the innocent and guilty in the same destruction!. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
When it brake forth to whelm the new-fram'd world?. From Wordnik.com. [Man of Uz, and Other Poems] Reference
Should hide our walls, or whelm beneath the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
Give fire: she is my prize, or ocean whelm them all!. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]] Reference
Give fire; she is my prize, or ocean whelm them all!. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry Wives of Windsor] Reference
Threats to whelm in frightful deeps thy tender form!. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems.] Reference
And rumbling earthquakes, whelm and shake the world!. From Wordnik.com. [Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays] Reference
Give fire! she is my prize, or ocean whelm them all!. From Wordnik.com. [Act II. Scene II. The Merry Wives of Windsor] Reference
To whelm the world, and heave the floors o 'the deep. From Wordnik.com. [Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.] Reference
Thou turned'st the sea to land, when Thou didst whelm. From Wordnik.com. [Hymns of the Eastern Church] Reference
Pour in! whelm that which asks, which sings, with all. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass [1867]] Reference
Will it break and whelm me in brackish water and morass?. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Lily and Other Stories] Reference
Through wounds and deaths they whelm their wretched foes. From Wordnik.com. [To the Tyrants Infesting France] Reference
Should split thine heart, and whelm thine head with sanguine waves. From Wordnik.com. [Two Nations] Reference
He wanted to whelm his senses in their perfume, and closed his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Five Tales] Reference
Till I loose my neck from their rudder and whelm them all in my wrath. From Wordnik.com. [Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads] Reference
Fear not, though the waters whelm you; fear not, though ye see no land!. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife] Reference
Pour in! whelm that which asks, which sings, with all and the yield of all. From Wordnik.com. [The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman] Reference
Sometimes he had stood there and wished that the dread tide could whelm him. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
'I need a great wave that shall whelm away the foreign ship that follows us. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Amulet] Reference
Pour in! whelm that which asks, which sings, with all, and the yield of all. From Wordnik.com. [Poems By Walt Whitman] Reference
The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
One little miscalculation and it would take but an instant to whelm us in disaster. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador] Reference
They sink in the whelm of the waters, as pebbles by children from shoreward hurled. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III] Reference
To acquire the reputation of a great warrior, he was willing to whelm provinces in blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Empire of Russia] Reference
Then in great fear answered the High Prophet, saying: "What if the gods be angry and whelm Sidith?". From Wordnik.com. [The Gods of Pegana] Reference
By darkness 'whelm'd. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference
Keep clear of his claws, and whelm him with spear casts. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Brethren] Reference
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