The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SWAMP , but the solution may also be ENGULF which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in LA Times).
Overwhelm crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SWAMP | 20 % | 5 |
| STUN | 17 % | 4 |
| AWE | 13 % | 3 |
| INUNDATE | 10 % | 8 |
| ENGULF | 5 % | 6 |
| ROUT | 5 % | 4 |
| SNOW | 3 % | 4 |
| SLAY | 3 % | 4 |
| FLOOR | 3 % | 5 |
| SMOTHER | 3 % | 7 |
| BESIEGE | 2 % | 7 |
| DELUGE | 2 % | 6 |
| DROWN | 2 % | 5 |
| DAZE | 1 % | 4 |
| BOGGLE | 1 % | 6 |
| DEVASTATE | 1 % | 9 |
| SNOWUNDER | 1 % | 9 |
| DOMINATE | 1 % | 8 |
| STEAMROLL | 1 % | 9 |
| FLOOD | 1 % | 5 |
| OUTGUN | 1 % | 6 |
| FLD | 1 % | 3 |
| FLABBERGAST | 1 % | 11 |
| STAGGER | 1 % | 7 |
| SUBMERGE | 1 % | 8 |
| TROUNCE | 1 % | 7 |
| CRUSH | 1 % | 5 |
Why may ENGULF be the right solution?
"Overwhelm" means to bury or drown beneath a huge mass. "Engulf" means to completely surround or cover something. Therefore, "Engulf" is the right solution as it fits the definition of "Overwhelm".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Overwhelm
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- overmaster
- overpower
- overcome
- whelm
- drown
- submerge
- overtake
- deluge
- flood out
- sweep over
- overburden
- burden
Crossword Answer definitions
SWAMP noun- A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
- A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment.
- A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- To drench or fill with water.
- To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SWAMP
- Inundate with work
- Pogo's milieu
- Overwhelm
- Where mangroves grow
- Gator's playground
- Place of a comic-book Thing
- Inundate
- Bog
- Quagmire
- Overload
More clues leading to the result STUN
More clues leading to the result AWE
- Blow away
- Electrify
- Flabbergast
- Knock the socks off
- Reverence
- Some start?
- Stupefaction
- Veneration
- Wonder
- Amaze
More clues leading to the result INUNDATE
More clues leading to the result ENGULF
More clues leading to the result ROUT
- Overthrow
- Scare off
- Sound defeat
- Decisive defeat
- Overwhelming defeat
- Complete ass-kicking
- Occasion for the mercy rule
- Crush in competition
- Contest that might involve a doormat
- Super Bowl XLVIII, e.g.
More clues leading to the result SNOW
- Deceive, slangily
- Overwhelm
- Winter ground cover
- Winter stuff
- Kind of job
- Television trouble
- Winter fallout
- "Strangers and Brothers" novelist
- Winter sight
- Winter hazard
More clues leading to the result SLAY
- Do in the dragon
- Overwhelm with laughter
- Do in
- Dispatch a dragon
- Overwhelm
- Amusingly overwhelm
- Kill
- Do well at a 39-Down
- Emulate Natty Bumppo
- Do in, as a dragon
More clues leading to the result FLOOR
- Bowl over
- Overwhelm
- Knock out
- Kayo
- Model's location
- Stun, in a way
- Elevator stop
- Attic or basement
- Deck
- Elevator designation
More clues leading to the result SMOTHER
- Cover thickly
- Top thickly
- Pay way too much attention to
- Put out a fire, one way
- Overwhelm
- Cover thickly, as with onions
- Cover completely
- Extinguish, as coals
- Cover thickly, as with mushrooms
- Suffocate
More clues leading to the result BESIEGE
- Surround, in a way
- Surround, as in battle
- Assail
- Harry
- Hound
- Surround with troops
- Surround
- Harass, as with questions
- Overwhelm
- Hound endlessly
More clues leading to the result DELUGE
- "Apres moi le ___"
- Flood
- Avalanche or flood
- Too much water
- Drenching rain
- Downpour
- "Après moi, le ___" (Louis XV, anticipating the Revolution)
- Drenching downpour
- Overwhelming amount
- Mighty storm
More clues leading to the result DROWN
- Sink
- Feel inundated
- Pour too much syrup on, perhaps
- Render inaudible, with "out"
- Overwhelm
- Audibly overwhelm, with "out"
- Inundate
- Engulf
- Drink away, as sorrows
- Immerse (in), as maple syrup
More clues leading to the result DAZE
- Stupefy
- Stupor
- Befuddled state
- Daydreamer's state
- Dumbfound
- Muddleheadedness
- Stun
- Trance state
- Bowl over
- Foggy state
More clues leading to the result BOGGLE
- *Shake up, as one's mind*
- Word game with dice
- Word search game
- Overwhelm
- Dumbfound
- Popular word game
- Do something awkwardly.
- Be startled.
- Work clumsily.
- Amaze
More clues leading to the result DEVASTATE
More clues leading to the result SNOWUNDER
More clues leading to the result DOMINATE
- Control
- Overshadow
- Exercise control over
- Reign over
- Exercise control.
- Tower over.
- Control.
- Tower over (other things).
- Rule by superior power.
- Rule.
More clues leading to the result STEAMROLL
More clues leading to the result FLOOD
- Deluge
- Johnstown disaster
- Kind of insurance
- Torrent
- Dam buster
- Inundate
- Overflow
- Red River problem of 1996
- Fill, and then some
- Give an engine too much gas
More clues leading to the result OUTGUN
- Exceed in firepower
- Surpass in firepower
- Overwhelm
- Surpass
- Defeat
- Have more firepower than
- Defeat in battle
- Have superior firepower over
- Overpower in battle
- Overpower by force of arms
More clues leading to the result FLD
More clues leading to the result FLABBERGAST
More clues leading to the result STAGGER
- Go back and forth, in more than one sense
- Reel
- Walk in a crooked line
- Act drunk
- Shock
- Cause to reel
- Walk drunkenly
- Overlap time slots
- Alternate
- Render helpless
More clues leading to the result SUBMERGE
- Go under
- Cover with water
- Overwhelm.
- Plunge.
- Inundate.
- Go down, as the Seawolf.
- Command aboard the Nautilus.
- Suppress.
- Sink.
- Put under water
More clues leading to the result TROUNCE
- Clobber
- Whip in competition
- Make mincemeat of
- Really beat
- Beat handily
- Beat soundly
- Don't just defeat
- Beat badly
- Beat in a laugher
- Defeat badly^TROUNC