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Definition of whelms:

(v) : (transitive, archaic) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
(v) : (intransitive, archaic) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.
(n) : (poetic, also figuratively) A surge of water.
(n) : A wooden drainpipe, a hollowed out tree trunk, turned with the cavity downwards to form an arched watercourse.
(v) : (transitive, obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
(v) : (transitive, obsolete) To ruin or destroy.

Definition of whelms:

(v) : (transitive, archaic) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.
(v) : (intransitive, archaic) To overcome with emotion; to overwhelm.
(n) : (poetic, also figuratively) A surge of water.
(n) : A wooden drainpipe, a hollowed out tree trunk, turned with the cavity downwards to form an arched watercourse.
(v) : (transitive, obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
(v) : (transitive, obsolete) To ruin or destroy.

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