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Definition of wash over phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

wash over

phrasal verb
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wash over somebody
  1. (also wash through somebody)
     (literary) (of a feeling) to suddenly affect somebody strongly, so that they are not aware of anything else
    • Waves of nausea washed over him.
  2. to happen to or around somebody without affecting them
    • She manages to let criticism just wash over her.
See wash over in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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flabbergasted
adjective
 
 
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