Citations:whelm

English citations of whelm

1. (transitive) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
   • 1998, Madelyn Roeder Camrud, Under the Whelming Tide: The 1997 Flood of the Red River of the North.

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• 2020 December 28, Peter Suderman, “Wonder Woman 1984 Is No Wonder”, in Reason‎^[1]:

  It is neither over- nor underwhelming—you will leave the theater, or your living room, simply whelmed.