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- verb Present participle of
whelm .
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Examples
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Decent batting average, 15 home run power, good glove, late start after minor league numbers that suggest there's an unfulfilled need for the word "whelming" - my community projection line is going to be a random year from
Viva El Birdos 2010
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If there's something very difficult you need to do to help your business grow, and you've been avoiding doing it because it feels so overwhelming, make the task more "whelming" by breaking it down into small bitable 15 to 30 minute chunks.
Karen Salmansohn: Time Equals Money: 10 Ways To Be More Productive 2008
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This wine is completely, utterly whelming, and there's nothing wrong with that.
What We Drank 2009
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I was planning to post all of the entries, but that would have been over whelming on many levels.
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It is true that President Bush did contribute to our current situation, however; the over-whelming majority of economists agree that Obama has done much (in only seven months), to cause this economy to spiral downward.
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You can now imagine my whelming -- nay, overwhelming
What We Drank 2009
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This wine is completely, utterly whelming, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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English has dozens of words for surging, churning, spurting, whelming, but biblical style avoids this maelstrom of synonyms.
The Good Book's Great Prose Lessons Robert Alter 2011
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You can now imagine my whelming -- nay, overwhelming
LENNDEVOURS: 2009
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You can now imagine my whelming -- nay, overwhelming
brtom commented on the word whelming
Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide
Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world
Milton, Lycidas
December 15, 2006