The noise overwhelmed him at first-how was he supposed to listen for foes and still function at the same time?

I bit back an involuntary yell, and then the noise of the train overwhelmed my gasp of pain.

The appalling noise overwhelmed the senses.

At first, the smoke, smell and noise overwhelmed her senses.

For the five minutes necessary to spin the flywheels up, Patricia couldn't check on the whereabouts of the Sycorax either; the noise overwhelmed her one hydrophone.

The noise of the engine overwhelmed the words, and Kate half stood and shouted out to the entire Park, "I love breakup!"

The noise must have overwhelmed the sound of sheep bells for miles around.

But they had to pause for a: moment when the noise completely overwhelmed them wi its waves.

Excessive noise can overwhelm the signal, making it useless.

If the signal is either slowly varying or otherwise constant (essentially a DC signal), then 1/f noise typically overwhelms the signal.