| 单词 | whelming |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈwhelming ˈwhelming n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > devouring nimminga1225 devouringa1382 swallowinga1400 whelmingc1440 consumingc1475 wide-mouthed1567 devoratory1647 consumptive1651 bloodsucking1658 involving1737 engulfing1761 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adjective] > overwhelmingly whelmingc1440 smothering1590 obrute1628 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [noun] > capsizing or upset overthrowingc1330 subversiona1382 whelmingc1440 overseta1658 overturn1789 upset1804 capsize1807 whemmel1817 upsetting1819 purl1825 bouleversement1877 capsizal1881 the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being submerged or action of submerging > [adjective] > causing submersion > so as to ruin or destroy whelmingc1440 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adjective] > with or as with earth burying1764 whelming1792 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 524/1 Whelmynge, suppinacio. 1645 J. Milton Lycidas (rev. ed.) in Poems 82 Under the whelming tide. 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxviii. 193 The Coumb or Wing so fixed..to the Share, with its true whelming, hollow, cross winding, compass, just answering the cast or turn of the Furrow. a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 92 The all-whelming deluge of Time. 1670 Sc. Prov. in J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 282 (Scott. Prov.) If I can get his cairt at a whelming [1678, p. 379 at a wolter], I shall lend it a put. 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 210 Doom'd to welter in the whelming main. 1792 W. Wordsworth Descr. Sketches 207 By Him who saves Alike in whelming snows and roaring winds. 1799 W. Cowper Castaway 13 Not long beneath the whelming brine, Expert to swim, he lay. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel cxviii If he may live for joys or sink in 'whelming pain. 1861 A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedral of 19th Cent. 166 At a crisis of growing darkness and whelming confusion. 1891 J. C. Atkinson Last of Giant-killers 145 Hidden by a whelming mass shot down from the hill above. < as lemmas |
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