whelms

Meaning of whelms

verb, 3rd person present
  1. engulf, submerge, or bury.
    a swimmer whelmed in a raging storm
plural noun
  1. an act or instance of flowing or heaping up abundantly; a surge.
    the whelm of the tide

Middle English: representing an Old English form parallel to hwelfan ‘overturn (a vessel’).

Information about whelms

  • The singular form of whelms is: whelm.
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Hyphenation of whelms

whelms

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • whelms is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with whelms

elms, Helms, dishelms, helms, overwhelms, schelms, underwhelms, unhelms, skelms, yelms

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