Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Whelmed
whelmed, verbal adj. [OE.] (webplay: seas).
Immersed; wet; engulfed; covered with water; [fig.] crushed; buried; inverted; rolled over; turned upside down; [metaphor] stricken; exhausted; overtaken; overcome; overwhelmed; overpowered; taken away to the next life.
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