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We found 8 dictionaries that define the word WHELMS:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. whelms: Merriam-Webster
  2. whelms: Collins English Dictionary
  3. whelms: TheFreeDictionary.com
  4. whelms: Vocabulary.com
  5. whelms: Wordnik
  6. whelms: Wiktionary
  7. whelms: Dictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whelms: Legal dictionary

(Note: See whelm as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (whelm)

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