The word "overwhelms" is a perfectly acceptable and usable word in written English.
It is an action verb meaning to cover or bury completely with an overwhelming amount of something that is difficult to withstand. For example: The sheer number of tourists on the beach overwhelmed the locals.
Someone launched a DDoS attack, which overwhelms a site's servers with repeated requests.
However, in the closing decades of the 20th century the pendulum swung back once more, as the return of identity politics encouraged black artists to examine their own ethnic roots.One problem with "Represent" is that its ambition sometimes overwhelms its actual presence in the galleries.
But when it overwhelms us to the point that we lose objectivity, we lose honesty, we're all in a lot of trouble.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] fireSIR – The headline to your briefing on George Bush's legacy ("The frat boy ships out", January 17th) spoke volumes of the sneering, snarling disdain you hold for the man, which is so strong that it overwhelms your objectivity.
Flood-control dams, for instance, tempt people to live close to rivers; so, when a catastrophic flood overwhelms the dam system, as happened along the Mississippi in 1993, the damage is far greater than if people had given the river a respectfully wide berth.
To quell a marlin's power fishermen put drags on their lines, but even with a drag and a heavy-weight line it is rare that a fisherman overwhelms a marlin.
The first of these is to turn away from the policies of mano dura, the iron-fisted approach to criminal justice that overwhelms the region's prisons and judicial systems, towards principles of prevention and rehabilitation.
From the start, Turner delighted in changeable weather: a snowstorm, for example, overwhelms Hannibal as he crosses the Alps.He was already prosperous in his mid-20s and canny with money.
But in "Turbo-capitalism" he makes exactly this mistake, and the padding overwhelms, and smothers, the interesting things he has to say.
But new help may be at hand.Danish scientists are confident that a new helmet which transmits electromagnetic pulses to the brain of the depressed will help to ease the melancholy that overwhelms sufferers.
That depends on three things: whether the tests were a really serious examination of banks' solvency; whether the disclosure eases investors' mistrust; and whether the sheer quantity of debt European banks need to refinance overwhelms all else.In this section Judgment daze Thinking outside the box Microfight Paying the price Out of the doghouse?
