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заливам — meaning in English

zalivam

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English meaning

  • drown verb To die, or to kill, by being unable to breathe underwater.
  • flood noun An overflow of water that covers land that is normally dry.
  • inundate verb To give someone far more of something than they can deal with, usually requests, messages or work.
  • overwhelm verb To completely overpower someone or something, whether physically or emotionally.
  • suffuse verb To spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.
  • swamp noun An area of wet, spongy, low-lying land, often with trees, that supports rich but sometimes difficult-to-access wildlife.
  • whelm verb To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.

Senses

заливам is used for these senses in English:

  • drown (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
  • inundate To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
  • overwhelm To engulf, surge over and submerge.
  • suffuse (transitive) To spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.
  • swamp (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
  • whelm (transitive, archaic) To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge.

drown — full definition

  1. verb To die, or to kill, by being unable to breathe underwater.
  2. verb To overwhelm or completely cover, often used figuratively.

flood — full definition

  1. noun An overflow of water that covers land that is normally dry.
  2. noun A large, overwhelming amount of something arriving all at once.
  3. verb To cover land with water, or to fill something with an overwhelming amount.

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