overwhelm

🇬🇧/ˌəʊvəˈwelm/ 🇺🇸/ˌoʊvərˈwelm/📚 4856 85 2六级考研托福雅思
If you are overwhelmed by a feeling or event, it affects you very strongly, and you do not know how to deal with it. (强烈地影响而) 使不知所措

verb [vt. 及物动词](感情上)使受不了,使不知所措;使大吃一惊;压垮,使应接不暇;打败,击垮;<文> (水)漫过,淹没;压倒,制服

He was overwhelmed by a longing for times past.
他陷入了一种对过去的渴望而不能自拔。

over- 表示”过度,过分”、”在……之上”、“翻转”overwhelm v.压倒;泛滥(over+whelm 推翻→翻过来→压倒)
overwhelm 出现在下面的课文中
Lesson 47 Too high a price? overwhelm 动词: 制服,使不知所措
单词造句:

v. 大水淹没某地

be overwhelmedwith / bygrief / despair / excitement ...
In June the town is overwhelmed by tourists.
I feel a little bit overwhelmed by work.
Her beauty completely overwhelmed him.
Government troops have overwhelmed the rebels.