Definition for Overwhelm:

• To cause to surround, to cover.

Synonyms for Overwhelm:

• adj.

  •infest (adjective)
  • overspread.

• n.

  •
  • confute,
  • infest,
  • exceed,
  • top,
  • overthrow,
  • conquer,
  • go beyond,
  • win,
  • destroy,
  • abound.
  •
  • sink,
  • waste.
  •
  • confuse,
  • confound,
  • puzzle.
  •
  • overflow,
  • shake up,
  • stagger,
  • flush,
  • shock,
  • engulf.
  •
  • annihilate,
  • smear,
  • vanquish,
  • trounce,
  • steamroller,
  • smash,
  • beat,
  • crush,
  • drub,
  • massacre,
  • thrash,
  • shellac,
  • cream,
  • wallop,
  • clobber.
  •
  • prostrate.
  •
  • break,
  • ruin.
  •overwhelm (noun)
  • drown,
  • overpower,
  • overmaster,
  • submerge,
  • overtake,
  • flood out,
  • whelm,
  • sweep over,
  • overcome,
  • deluge.
  •ruin (noun)
  • ruination.
  •silence (noun)
  • drown out.

• v.

  •amaze (verb)
  • bewilder,
  • amaze,
  • astound,
  • surprise,
  • dazzle,
  • stun,
  • daze,
  • impress,
  • astonish.
  •astonish, devastate (verb)
  • downgrade,
  • floor,
  • confuse,
  • stagger,
  • bowl over,
  • shock,
  • render speechless,
  • wreck,
  • upset,
  • surprise,
  • confound,
  • steamroller,
  • do in,
  • dumbfound,
  • prostrate,
  • shatter,
  • subordinate,
  • bewilder,
  • stun,
  • disturb,
  • blow out of the water,
  • run circles around,
  • demoralize,
  • kill,
  • puzzle.
  •disprove (verb)
  • confute.
  •emotion (verb)
  • whelm,
  • overcome,
  • overtake,
  • overpower,
  • sweep over.
  •flood, beat physically (verb)
  • engulf,
  • inundate,
  • overcome,
  • deluge,
  • overpower,
  • destroy,
  • drub,
  • bury,
  • thrash,
  • massacre,
  • crush,
  • conquer,
  • total,
  • rout,
  • overrun,
  • overthrow,
  • swamp,
  • submerge,
  • overflow,
  • smother,
  • drown,
  • defeat,
  • whip,
  • win.
  •overrun (verb)
  • outrun,
  • infest,
  • overrun,
  • overstep,
  • transgress,
  • outdistance,
  • overshoot,
  • overtake,
  • transcend,
  • surpass,
  • outpace.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • trample,
  • abound,
  • top,
  • go beyond,
  • gang up on,
  • exceed,
  • shellac.
  •
  • trounce,
  • clobber,
  • seize,
  • devastate,
  • steamroller.
  •
  • crush,
  • wallop,
  • vanquish,
  • cream,
  • drub,
  • break down.
  •
  • overflow,
  • throw,
  • smear,
  • consume,
  • prostrate,
  • annihilate.
  •
  • flush,
  • smash,
  • thrash,
  • destroy.
  •
  • break.
  •amaze
  • astound.
  •attack
  • wallop,
  • larrup,
  • whop.
  •charm
  • fascinate.
  •confuse
  • bemuse.
  •consume
  • exhaust,
  • lay waste.
  •defeat
  • mow down,
  • prevail over.
  •destroy
  • consume.
  •flood
  • flood,
  • brim over,
  • pour over.
  •kill
  • slaughter.
  •overload
  • overburden.
  •overrun
  • overstep,
  • go beyond,
  • well over,
  • overshoot,
  • run over,
  • overgrow.
  •pillage
  • ravage.
  •ruin
  • pauperize,
  • ruin.
  •steamroll
  • steamroller.
  •surprise
  • astonish,
  • flabbergast.
  •swallow up
  • engulf.
  •thresh
  • thresh.
  •trample
  • Tromp,
  • ride roughshod over.
  •weigh down
  • overload.
  •Other relevant words:
  • steamroller,
  • exterminate,
  • weary,
  • confuse,
  • amaze,
  • cow,
  • embarrass,
  • outwit,
  • break,
  • blast,
  • gang,
  • get over,
  • excel,
  • weigh down,
  • devour,
  • club,
  • paralyze,
  • overspread,
  • prostrate,
  • embitter,
  • pressurize,
  • sorrow,
  • silence,
  • embroil,
  • kill,
  • rattle,
  • scourge,
  • shut out,
  • ravage,
  • petrify,
  • gang up on,
  • mangle,
  • gravel,
  • duck,
  • tyrannize,
  • Tromp,
  • overtax,
  • do away with,
  • obscure,
  • pour out,
  • spill over,
  • combine,
  • despoil,
  • ruin,
  • catch up with,
  • bring down,
  • confound,
  • baptize,
  • settle,
  • drown out,
  • fill,
  • compel,
  • blow out of the water,
  • undo,
  • chagrin,
  • triumph over,
  • repulse,
  • trouble,
  • whop,
  • bowl down,
  • ally,
  • invade,
  • stagger,
  • stupefy,
  • subordinate,
  • Overlavish,
  • contradict,
  • foray,
  • bedazzle,
  • beat down,
  • overcharge,
  • demoralize,
  • demolish,
  • win,
  • beset,
  • depose,
  • cloak,
  • glut,
  • nullify,
  • repress,
  • flatten,
  • unsettle,
  • well,
  • take breath away,
  • Supersaturate,
  • abash,
  • fall,
  • rebut,
  • wreck,
  • murder,
  • mutilate,
  • sink,
  • vanquish,
  • answer,
  • master,
  • Importune,
  • jump on,
  • paralyse,
  • fatigue,
  • slaughter,
  • grieve,
  • raid,
  • reduce,
  • overwrite,
  • pressure,
  • desolate,
  • intimidate,
  • fascinate,
  • curry,
  • dunk,
  • floor,
  • tire,
  • bulldoze,
  • scare,
  • bend,
  • sue,
  • inundate,
  • obsess,
  • Oversell,
  • ensorcel,
  • pack a punch,
  • rout,
  • drug,
  • veil,
  • exhaust,
  • anguish,
  • flood,
  • swallow,
  • engulf,
  • go beyond,
  • immerse,
  • subdue,
  • petition,
  • Overabound,
  • unite,
  • saturate,
  • puzzle,
  • pass,
  • prevail,
  • invigorate,
  • drown,
  • downgrade,
  • mow down,
  • throw off balance,
  • unnerve,
  • liquidate,
  • Superabound,
  • electrify,
  • load,
  • outroar,
  • shroud,
  • whelm,
  • eat up,
  • envelop,
  • gorge,
  • schmear,
  • dispose of,
  • pillage,
  • crush,
  • bedaze,
  • baptise,
  • argue down,
  • throw over,
  • drink in,
  • thrash,
  • outrank,
  • spill out,
  • take by storm,
  • cut down,
  • dust,
  • enchant,
  • whomp,
  • burden,
  • make mincemeat of,
  • trample,
  • drub,
  • heap,
  • scale,
  • outreach,
  • pulverize,
  • shatter,
  • submerge,
  • overlay,
  • exceed,
  • obliterate,
  • mop up,
  • deluge,
  • brim over,
  • eradicate,
  • jolt,
  • overswarm,
  • batter,
  • tax,
  • disturb,
  • outshine,
  • thresh,
  • Overbrim,
  • jam,
  • hide,
  • overgrow,
  • seize,
  • frighten,
  • impose,
  • pile,
  • outshout,
  • cover,
  • sack,
  • paste,
  • load down,
  • thrive,
  • camouflage,
  • upset,
  • saddle with,
  • press,
  • entrance,
  • Hepatize,
  • enshroud,
  • domineer,
  • carry the day,
  • top,
  • beat out,
  • pull down,
  • flabbergast,
  • deny,
  • overawe,
  • galvanize,
  • controvert,
  • lay low,
  • conceal,
  • join,
  • slosh,
  • animate,
  • win over,
  • maraud,
  • screen,
  • oversupply,
  • smother,
  • assail,
  • vandalize,
  • bury,
  • secrete,
  • overfeed,
  • trample down,
  • suppress,
  • afflict,
  • plunder,
  • wipe out,
  • dip,
  • overpower,
  • overflow,
  • finish,
  • route,
  • unify,
  • slop,
  • overshadow,
  • topple,
  • befall,
  • bristle with,
  • parry,
  • rock,
  • abound,
  • come upon,
  • revel in,
  • subjugate,
  • boggle,
  • unman,
  • massacre,
  • cascade,
  • better,
  • overbear,
  • destroy,
  • whip,
  • quell,
  • storm,
  • jar,
  • skunk,
  • consume,
  • surround,
  • dominate,
  • prevail over,
  • smash,
  • bowl over,
  • Dumfound,
  • nonplus,
  • choke,
  • dethrone,
  • inroad,
  • total,
  • run through,
  • perplex,
  • stimulate,
  • swallow up,
  • check,
  • unseat,
  • surcharge,
  • perturb,
  • startle,
  • flummox,
  • pour over,
  • bow down,
  • blank,
  • stop,
  • unhorse,
  • overstock,
  • polish off,
  • overburden,
  • lower,
  • bemuse,
  • override,
  • overhaul,
  • blow one's mind,
  • attack,
  • overload,
  • humiliate,
  • dispel,
  • intoxicate,
  • upend,
  • succeed,
  • worst,
  • elate,
  • wear out,
  • aggrieve,
  • enliven,
  • deject,
  • excite,
  • agitate,
  • know no bounds,
  • dissolve,
  • overdo,
  • oust,
  • clobber,
  • eliminate,
  • take off,
  • wrap,
  • quash,
  • entangle,
  • relish,
  • fell,
  • be victorious,
  • knock over,
  • board,
  • larrup,
  • flood out,
  • turn one's head,
  • shake up,
  • overmaster,
  • trample underfoot,
  • cream,
  • subvert,
  • bewitch,
  • discombobulate,
  • cut up,
  • take aback,
  • shake,
  • bully,
  • sweep,
  • drench,
  • bring low,
  • bring to terms,
  • lade,
  • submerse,
  • capture,
  • escalade,
  • overcome,
  • HIT,
  • confute,
  • shut up,
  • throw,
  • run riot,
  • do for,
  • whitewash,
  • tower,
  • blot out,
  • render speechless,
  • be strong,
  • eclipse,
  • dissipate,
  • lavish,
  • shock,
  • ruination,
  • trim,
  • convince,
  • distract,
  • annual,
  • douse,
  • dish,
  • inter,
  • undermine,
  • throw down,
  • Immerge,
  • strip,
  • disconcert,
  • devastate,
  • terrify,
  • wear,
  • crawl with,
  • merge,
  • have the best,
  • wear down,
  • cataract,
  • run circles around,
  • preoccupy,
  • disguise,
  • souse,
  • sweep over,
  • pre-empt,
  • involve,
  • league,
  • hector,
  • join forces,
  • well over,
  • squash,
  • triumph,
  • spill,
  • assault,
  • annihilate,
  • smite,
  • awe,
  • waste,
  • trounce,
  • swamp,
  • stare down,
  • do in,
  • strike dumb,
  • harry,
  • encumber,
  • discomfit,
  • oppress,
  • lay waste,
  • run over,
  • dismiss,
  • smear,
  • answer conclusively,
  • shower,
  • conquer,
  • wallop,
  • swarm,
  • mortify,
  • overdose,
  • thrill,
  • tear up,
  • plunge,
  • thwart,
  • humble,
  • catch,
  • besiege,
  • infatuate,
  • blow mind,
  • absorb,
  • knock,
  • defeat,
  • shout down,
  • infest,
  • ride roughshod over,
  • best,
  • get the best,
  • blow down,
  • exhilarate,
  • enrapture,
  • browbeat,
  • beat,
  • make away with,
  • overthrow,
  • overturn,
  • outdo,
  • stifle,
  • flush,
  • strike,
  • sacrifice,
  • band,
  • blanket,
  • blitz,
  • snow under,
  • lick,
  • be prodigal with,
  • squelch,
  • daunt,
  • break down,
  • creep with,
  • pauperize,
  • outstrip,
  • depress,
  • cut short,
  • shellac,
  • dumbfound,
  • torment,
  • seduce,
  • refute.

Antonyms for Overwhelm:

• v.

  • astonish, devastate
    clear up, aid, comfort, enlighten, organize, assist, create, explain, order, help, clarify.
  • flood, beat physically
    fail, surrender, lose, yield, uncover, forfeit, not impress, underwhelm, inspirit, encourage.
  • Other antonyms:
    advertise, divulge, expose, uncover, dehydrate, lay open, manifest, admit, lay bare, make known, publish, show, discover, disinter, reveal, tell, exhume, promulgate, disclose, confess, raise, betray, unveil, dry, avow, drain, parch, exhibit, unmask.