Obs. gorbellied; chubby, tubby, pudgy, plump, rounded. overwhelm, v. 1. overpower, destroy, crush, route, discomfit, overthrow, overbear, worst, ruin, extirpate, annihilate; override, subdue, suppress, quash, quell, subjugate, master, overmaster, vanquish, conquer, triumph over, defeat, beat, overburden, overweigh, weigh down, oppress, burden, overtax, bow down, prostrate, encumber, hamper, saddle.
2. overcome, whelm, engulf, swallow, submerge, immerse, flood, swamp, deluge, inundate, bury, suffocate, glut, choke, overrun, infest, Inf. snow, Inf. snow under, Inf. blitz; overlay, cover, spread over, overspread.
3. daze, stagger, stupefy, dumfound, astound, confound, bewilder, stun, nonplus, take aback, astonish, amaze, Inf. bowl over, Inf. knock off one's feet, SI. knock for a loop, Inf. blow one's mind. overwhelming, adj. 1. overpowering, uncontrollable, irresistible, knockdown; unbearable, unendurable, unyielding, inexorable; onerous, oppressive, burdensome, weighty, crushing, arduous, exhausting, wearing, wasting, devastating, despoiling; decisive, irrefutable, formidable, inevitable, inescapable.
2. prodigious, monstrous, stupendous, cataclysmic, stupefying, mind-blowing, mind-shattering, mind-boggling, breathtaking, awesome, awe-striking, aweinspiring, awful; engulfing, profuse, inordinate. overwork, v. 1. overtax, overtask, overexert, overextend, overexercise, overstrain, overdrive; fag or fag out, enervate, exhaust, jade, wear out, prostrate, run or drive into the ground; oppress, overload, overlade, overburden, overweight, overcharge, surcharge.
2. work hard, work like a horse, work like a slave or galley slave, slave, Inf. sweat and slave, Inf work one's head or tail off, work one's fingers to the bone; do double duty, work overtime, work double hours, work day and night; work late, burn the midnight oil, lucubrate.
3. foment, agitate, suscitate, excite, overexcite, impassion, inflame, stir up, work up, wind up, whip up, fire up; madden, infuriate, lash into a fury, whip into a frenzy.
4. overdo, overlabor, overuse, overemploy, overplay, Inf. overplay one's hand; overstress, overemphasize, play up.
5. decorate, ornament, adorn, embellish, overlay.
-n. 6. overexertion, overexercise, overexpenditure, overstrain, strain, overtaxing, overtasking. overwrought, adj. 1. all worked-up, all wrought-up, beside oneself, not oneself, in a state, in a dither, in a titter, atwitter, Inf. in a tizzy; overexcited, overly excited, all wound up, all keyed up, SI. choked up; aroused, all stirred up, all whipped up, all fired up, inflamed, impassioned, carried away; frenzied, in a frenzy, frantic, corybantic, hysterical, in hysterics, feverish, delerious, maddened, crazed, wild, Inf. out of one's head, Inf. off the deep end, SI. out of one's skull or gourd, SI. bananas, SI. zonkers; perturbed, vexed, annoyed, exasperated, exacerbated; incensed, furious, enraged, angry, mad, hopping mad, Inf. in a lather, Inf. steamed up, SI. hot under the collar, U.S. SI. hopped up; agitated, shaken, ruffled, flustered, fluttered, aquiver, disturbed, unsettled; disconcerted, disquieted, discomposed, addled, muddled, confused.
2. high-strung, highly excitable or emotional, jumpy, twitchy, jittery, fidgety, shaky; nervous, tense, on edge, touchy, irritable, oversensitive.
3. overworked, overdone, overdrawn, strained, forced, contrived; exaggerated, hyperbolic, stretching it, excessive, Inf. too much, Inf a bit much; pretentious, chichi, affected, mannered, self-conscious, overrefined, overnice, euphemistic, Inf. too-too, Inf. la-di-da; overelegant, high-flown, extravagant, gradilo-quent, grandiose, magniloquent, pompous, ostentatious, Inf. highfalutin; gaudy, garish, overelaborate, overembellished, flowery, florid, ornate, baroque, rococo, busy.