whelm

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.

   “Giue fire: ſhe is my prize, or Ocean whelme them all.”

2. fiil To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.

   “Gnats and Flies are very troubleſome in Houſes [...] Balls made of Horſe-dung and laid in a Room will do the ſame [attract gnats and flies] if they are new made; by which means you may whelm ſome things over them and keep them there.”

3. fiil To ruin or destroy.

   “Here, where a Cæsar stood two thousand years ago, the traveller from another continent (though not from New Zealand) stands to-day, to muse—at Pæstum, as at Pompeii—on the fate which overtakes all human things, and at last whelms man and his works in one undistinguishable ruin.”

4. fiil To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.

   “Hear Thou our plaint, when light is gone / And lawlessness and strife prevail. / Hear, lest the whelming weight of crime / Wreck us with life in view; / Lest thoughts and schemes of sense and time / Earn us a sinner's due.”

5. fiil To emotionally affect at an intensity in between underwhelm and overwhelm.

   “Hey guys, Scott here with my first impressions of the Jason 10th anniversary patch. And I have to say I am I'm kind of just whelmed. Like it's I'm not disappointed and I'm not like blown away or excited by anything that I've seen here.”

6. isim A surge of water.

   “the whelm of the tide”

7. isim A wooden drainpipe, a hollowed out tree trunk, turned with the cavity downwards to form an arched watercourse.

   “A whelm was a wooden drainpipe, a hollowed-out tree trunk, "whelmed down" or turned with the concavity downwards to form an arched watercourse.”