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Overwhelm

The act of overwhelming...


compel

compel com·pelled com·pel·ling : to cause to do or occur by overwhelming pressure and esp. by authority or law [cannot the defendant to testify] [the result…is compelled by, the original understanding of the fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause "R. H. Bork"] ...


manifest necessity

manifest necessity : a circumstance (as an incurable pleading defect, the unavailability of an essential witness, juror misconduct, or illness of counsel) which is of such an overwhelming and unforeseeable nature that the conduct of trial or reaching of a fair result is impossible and which necessitates the declaration of a mistrial NOTE: If there is a manifest necessity for the declaration of a mistrial, the defendant may be retried without violation of the prohibition on double jeopardy. ...


vis major

vis major [Latin, literally, greater force] : an overwhelming force ;also : act of god ...


blitzkrieg

an overwhelming all out attack with infantry armor and air forces especially by surprise against an unprepared enemy...


Cataplexy

A morbid condition caused by an overwhelming shock or extreme fear and marked by rigidity of the muscles...


Confute

To overwhelm by argument to refute conclusively to prove or show to be false or defective to overcome to silence...


Crushing

That crushes overwhelming...


Hell

To overwhelm...


Indrench

To overwhelm with water to drench to drown...


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