whelm
To emotionally affect at an intensity in between underwhelm and overwhelmTo emotionally affect at an intensity in between underwhelm and overwhelm; to just satisfy or just meet expectations.
» What a gracious speech, what a daring pledge to a world whelmed in tyranny and wrong!
Значение
значений: 5(разговорное, переходный)To emotionally affect at an intensity in between underwhelm and overwhelm; to just satisfy or just meet expectations.
(архаичное, переходный)To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
(устаревшее, переходный)To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
(устаревшее, переходный)To ruin or destroy.
(архаичное, непереходный)To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.
overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
Примеры
предложений: 1What a gracious speech, what a daring pledge to a world whelmed in tyranny and wrong!
Переводы
языков: 3Происхождение
From Middle English whelmen (“to turn over, capsize; to invert, turn upside down”), perhapFrom Middle English whelmen (“to turn over, capsize; to invert, turn upside down”), perhaps from Old English *hwealmnian, a variant of *hwealfnian, from hwealf (“arched, concave, vaulted; an arched or vaulted ceiling”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwalb, from Proto-Germanic *hwalbą (“arch, vault”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelp- (“to curve”).
Back-formation from overwhelm /underwhelm, as if a base verb "whelm" described a middling intensity between under- and overwhelming.
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Формы
whelms, whelming, whelmed, whelmedСинонимы
синонимов: 6- overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli:overwhelmoverpowersweep overovercomeovertake
Антонимы
антонимов: 1Однокоренные
связанных слов: 5Уроки к слову
уроков: 3- A1Present Simple: настоящее простое время — Потому что это глагол
- A1Past Simple: правильные глаголы — Потому что у него есть форма прошедшего времени
- A2Present Perfect: введение — Потому что у него есть причастие прошедшего времени