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overwhelm

英 [əʊvə'welm] 美[,ovɚ'wɛlm]

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vt. 淹没；压倒；受打击；覆盖；压垮

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The desire for a future reward is overwhelming.

Economist Carl Weinberg believes the negative effects of plunging oil prices are overwhelming the positive effects of cheaper oil.

Any device that's built to receive a wireless signal at a specific frequency can be overwhelmed by a stronger signal coming in on the same frequency.

If anything, the information is overwhelming.

For some, the hardships of life without steady work eventually overwhelmed their attempts to keep their families together.

To avoid being overwhelmed by stress.

Those simultaneous challenges appear less overwhelming with increasingly better answers to a centuries-old question: how to make power portable.

The overwhelming majority of employees attribute their stress mainly to low pay and an excessive workload.

Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.

Advising non-English-speaking families to speak only English is overwhelming to telling them not to communicate with or interact with their children.

A shattering loss of confidence inspires behavior that overwhelms the normal self-correcting mechanisms that usually prevent a recession from becoming deep and prolonged: a depression.

Its schools will be overwhelmed by the growing number of illegal immigrants.

Students are graduating with a variety of skills and interests, but often find themselves overwhelmed when it comes to choosing an ultimate career goal.

There is this 'detachment' and I realize that there are obviously experiences which would overwhelm everyone.

They are overwhelmed by their own prejudices.