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Mehbe I was working on a misuderstanding. I had thought that the whelm part was somehow related to waves and the whole overwhelm image was of waves rolling over someone. The underwhelm that I had derived from that had the wavbes washing away the beach being stood upon. But it turns out, yes, overwhelm is redundant. But you'd be surprised how rife redundancy is in our language.
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