Giue fire: ſhe is my prize, or Ocean whelme them all.
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Whelm
//ʍɛlm//
Synonyms for "whelm" (80 found)
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Translations
28 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- заливам verb (to bury, cover; to engulf, submerge)
- поглъщам verb (to bury, cover; to engulf, submerge)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 壓倒 /压倒 verb (to bury, cover; to engulf, submerge)
- 淹沒 /淹没 verb (to bury, cover; to engulf, submerge)
French
2 entries- submerger verb (to bury, cover; to engulf, submerge)
- submerger verb (to overcome with emotion)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- sitèlman chaj verb (to bury, cover; to engulf, submerge)
Hebrew
1 entries- נַחְשׁוֹל noun ((poetic, also figuratively) surge of water)
Hungarian
4 entries- hullám noun ((poetic, also figuratively) surge of water)
- ár noun ((poetic, also figuratively) surge of water)
- áradat noun ((poetic, also figuratively) surge of water)
- árhullám noun ((poetic, also figuratively) surge of water)
Italian
4 entries- essere sopraffatto verb (to overcome with emotion)
- immergersi verb (to bury, cover; to engulf, submerge)
- impantanarsi verb (to bury, cover; to engulf, submerge)
- infognarsi verb (to bury, cover; to engulf, submerge)
Polish
2 entries- ogarnąć verb (to overcome with emotion)
- otoczyć verb (to bury, cover; to engulf, submerge)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Still let me walk; for oft' the ſudden Gale / Ruffles the Tide, and ſhifts the dang'rous Sail, / Then ſhall the Paſſenger, too late, deplore / The whelming Billow, and the faithleſs Oar; [...]
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Such is the fate of ſimple Bard, / On Life's rough ocean luckleſs ſtarr'd! / Unſkilful he to note the card / Of prudent Lore, / Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, / And whelm him o'er!
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Deep-whelm'd beneath, in vast sepulchral caves, / Oblivion dwells amid unlabell'd graves; / The storied tomb, the laurell'd bust o'erturns, / And shakes their ashes from the mould'ring urns.
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