Put_down vs Overwhelm - What's the difference?
put_down | overwhelm | Related terms |
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
(idiomatic) To insult, belittle, or demean.
* 1965 , (The Who), (My Generation)
(of money as deposit) To pay.
To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
(euphemistic) To euthanize (an animal).
To write (something).
(of a telephone) To terminate a call; to hang up.
To add a name to a list.
To make prices, or taxes, lower.
(idiomatic) To place a baby somewhere to sleep.
(idiomatic, of an aircraft) To land.
(idiomatic) To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle.
(idiomatic) To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book).
To engulf, surge over and submerge.
To overpower, crush.
* Bible, Psalms lxxviii. 53
To overpower emotionally.
To cause to surround, to cover.
Put_down is a related term of overwhelm.
As verbs the difference between put_down and overwhelm
is that put_down is while overwhelm is to engulf, surge over and submerge.As a noun put_down
is .put_down
English
Verb
- Why don't you put down your briefcase and stay awhile?
- "There he is!" cried Mrs. Flanders, coming round the rock and covering the whole space of the beach in a few seconds. "What has he got hold of? Put it down , Jacob! Drop it this moment!
- They frequently put down their little sister for walking slowly.
- People try to put us down / Just because we get around.
- We put down a $1,000 deposit.
- The government quickly put down the insurrection.
- For the 75 years since a district rebellion was put down , The Games have existed as an assertion of the Capital’s power, a winner-take-all contest that touts heroism and sacrifice—participants are called “tributes”— while pitting the districts against each other.
- Rex was in so much pain, they had to put''' him '''down .
- Put down the first thing you think of on this piece of paper.
- Don't put''' the phone '''down . I want a quick word with him,too.
- I've put''' myself '''down for the new Spanish conversation course.
- BP are putting''' petrol and diesel '''down in what could be the start of a price war.
- I had just put''' Mary '''down when you rang. So now she's crying again.
- The pilot managed to put down in a nearby farm field.
- The taxi put''' him '''down outside the hotel.
- I was unable to put down ''The Stand'': it was that exciting.
Derived terms
* put someone down as * put down for * put down tooverwhelm
English
Verb
- The dinghy was overwhelmed by the great wave.
- In December 1939 the Soviet Union attacked Finland with overwhelming force.
- The sea overwhelmed their enemies.
- He was overwhelmed with guilt.
- Joy overwhelmed her when she realized that she had won a million dollars.
- (Papin)