English-Polish translations for overwhelm

• miażdżyć
• ogarniać
• przytłaczać
• zalewać
  To dlatego, że jeśli nie dopuścimy produktów tych ludzi do UE, będą oni nadal przepływać Morze Śródziemne na swoich łupinkach, a ich masy będą zalewać Lampeduzę. This is because, if we do not allow these people's products into the EU, they will continue to come across the Mediterranean in coracles and in their masses to overwhelm Lampedusa.

Definition of overwhelm

• To engulf, surge over and submerge
• To overpower, crush
• To overpower emotionally
• To cause to surround, to cover
• The state or condition of being overwhelmed

Examples

• The dinghy was overwhelmed by the great wave.
• In December 1939 the Soviet Union attacked Finland with overwhelming force.
• He was overwhelmed with guilt.
• Joy overwhelmed her when she realized that she had won a million dollars.

Related words

• overwhelming
• overwhelmed
• overwhelmingly
• overwhelming majority