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Overwhelm vs Tame - What's the difference?

overwhelm | tame |

As a verb overwhelm

is to engulf, surge over and submerge.

As a noun tame is

water-source.

overwhelm

English

Verb

  • To engulf, surge over and submerge.
    • The dinghy was overwhelmed by the great wave.
  • To overpower, crush.
    • In December 1939 the Soviet Union attacked Finland with overwhelming force.
  • * Bible, Psalms lxxviii. 53
    • The sea overwhelmed their enemies.
  • To overpower emotionally.
    • He was overwhelmed with guilt.
    Joy overwhelmed her when she realized that she had won a million dollars.
  • To cause to surround, to cover.
    • (Papin)

    Derived terms

    * overwhelming

    Related terms

    * whelm

    See also

    * too many balls in the air

    tame

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Not or no longer wild; domesticated
    • They have a tame wildcat.
  • (chiefly, of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
    • The lion was quite tame .
  • Not exciting
    • This party is too tame for me.
    For a thriller, that film was really tame .
  • Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
  • * Roscommon
    • tame slaves of the laborious plough
  • (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
    • Quotations
    * (English Citations of "tame")
    Synonyms
    * (not exciting) dull, insipid
    Antonyms
    * (not wild) wild * (mild and well-behaved) gentle * (not exciting) exciting * (mathematics) wild
    Derived terms
    * tamely * tameness

    Verb

  • to make something
    • He tamed the wild horse.
  • to become
    • Derived terms
    * tamer

    External links

    * ("tame" on Wikipedia)

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) .

    Verb

    (tam)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
  • * Fuller
    • In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.

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