(v. t.) To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly.
(v. t.) To project or impend over threateningly.
(v. t.) To cause to surround, to cover.
(n.) The act of overwhelming.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(2) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
(3) T cells admixed in the germinal centers were overwhelmingly of the T-helper type.
(4) Unfortunately for the governor, he could win both states and still face the overwhelming likelihood of failure if he doesn't take Ohio, where the poll found Obama out front 51-43.
(5) In Britain, the European election is overwhelmingly seen through the prism of domestic politics.
(6) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Asked if Watson should seek to refresh his mandate after Corbyn’s overwhelming victory among members, McCluskey added: “Well, if Tom wants to try to refresh his mandate it would be interesting to see what happens.” Watson said it was time “to be proud of our party”, because the Conservatives were beatable and the prime minister, Theresa May, could call an election any time.
(7) The government acknowledged it had been overwhelmed by the devastation from the deadliest quake in Nepal in over 80 years.
(8) He made me laugh and cry, and his courage in writing about what he was going through was sometimes quite overwhelming.
(9) Although alpha 1-antiprotease (alpha 1-AP) binds and inactivates NE and is the major antielastase of the lower respiratory tract, antielastase defenses may be overwhelmed in CF, leading to progressive lung damage.
(10) And HAP has shown that the key finding that debt slows growth was driven overwhelmingly by the exclusion of four years of data from New Zealand.
(11) Cathepsin D-like acid proteinase existed overwhelmingly in the mucosal layer and was hardly detected in the gastric juice.
(12) Hence, reaction of chemical carcinogen with nuclear DNA is possible only when the cell is overwhelmed leading to cell death, or following a temporary breach of the nuclear membrane control points, but the DNA damage in the latter is totally reparable.
(13) The facts are clear: the overwhelming majority of EU citizens in Britain are contributors, not freeloaders.” But that was not the official position of any of the parties involved, so it went mostly unsaid.
(14) Of 54 patients with poor-grade aneurysms, ventriculostomy was placed in 47 (87.0%) and yielded high ICP's in the overwhelming majority, with the mean ICP being 40.2 cm H2O.
(15) There is overwhelming evidence, today, that such factors are involved in the manifestation of acute as well as chronic, non-specific as well as well as specific inflammation.
(16) Mobile phone networks, overwhelmed by demand, were down for hours, with authorities advising people to use email or text messages instead.
(17) The immunity was enacted by an overwhelming bipartisan vote, with the support of leading Democrats including Barack Obama, who had promised - when seeking his party's nomination - to filibuster any bill that contained retroactive telecom immunity.
(18) There’s an overwhelming sadness among kids like that who have been kept there for a very long time.
(19) Panic attacks would overwhelm her periodically and she experienced regular “ scanxiety ” – the feelings of dread that grip patients before new tests.
(20) In the meantime, Malaysia Airlines’ overwhelming focus will be the same as it has been from the outset – to provide the families with a comprehensive support programme.
Succumb
Definition:
(v. t.) To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, albino rats and rabbits failed to succumb to overt disease by subcutaneous and intraperitoneal routes of inoculation.
(2) Adult animals succumbed to O2 lung toxicity in 3--5 days.
(3) In places it succumbs to over-commercialisation but this is still one of the finest medieval towns in Europe.
(4) Grosics did his best between the posts, but the team succumbed to Wales in a bruising play-off, thus failing to advance beyond the first stage.
(5) MAbs with high virus-neutralizing activity directed to one antigenic site of the HN protein delayed virus growth and significantly prolonged survival time, but all chickens eventually succumbed to infection.
(6) A fifth victim - an Israeli policeman - succumbed to his injuries late on Tuesday night.
(7) Splenectomy was performed on one twin at age seven years who survived a complicating pneumococcal septicaemia ten days after the procedure, but who succumbed to fulminating infection three years later.
(8) This lowered activity of the NADPH oxidase, with the resulting decreased O2 generation, might be responsible for the failure of the animals to control the parasitaemia; as a result they succumbed to the infection.
(9) Fulham were helped by United being forced into a trio of substitutions at the interval, as Rafael succumbed to a twisted ankle, Cleverly had double vision and Evans had back trouble.
(10) She succumbed to a series of infections that the pre-penicillin world had no drugs to treat.
(11) In vitro practically all common antibiotics except cephalosporins are active against nearly all natural isolates of Listeria monocytogenes; the therapeutic efficacy of antibiotic treatment is, however, rather limited, since up to 30% listeriosis patients will succumb to this infection.
(12) Mice transgenic for a c-myc gene driven by the IgH enhancer (E mu-myc) were shown to almost invariably develop lymphomas, 90% succumbing in the first 5 mo of life.
(13) The net effect however is beneficial since without metastasis the organism would have succumbed to the disease in its earliest stage.
(14) Unable to stand or swallow and forced to communicate through a computer, John Close, 54, a former musician, chose suicide in 2003 as his body succumbed to the remorseless grip of motor neurone disease.
(15) The facilitation of eclosion by adult colony members appears to be an obligatory process in the development of this species; pupae denied the aid of adult workers during eclosion are unable to remove the pupal cuticle and rapidly succumb.
(16) Speaking in Queensland earlier this month , Abbott boasted that “any other government, I suspect, would quickly succumb to the cries of the human rights lawyers”.
(17) All four patients succumbed, three in the emergency room and one on the eighth hospital day.
(18) Following inoculation with 0.25 X 10(6) organisms NF or NFA-fed hosts succumbed more rapidly than F, NFR, or NFU fed hosts (P less than 0.001).
(19) Five patients died in aplasia due to infections, one additional patient succumbed to HD-araC related CNS toxicity.
(20) "The leadership role that falls to Germany today is not only awakening historical ghosts all around us, but also tempts us to choose a unilateral national course or even to succumb to power fantasies of a 'German Europe'.