Whelms

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of whelm form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

Example

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"Like as a fire, when Southern gusts are rude, / falls on the standing harvest of the plain, / or torrent, hurtling with a mountain flood, / whelms field and oxen's toil and smiling grain, / and rolls whole forests headlong to the main, / while, weetless of the noise, on neighbouring height, / tranced in mute wonder, stands the listening swain."

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