hukkua — meaning in English

English meaning

• deluge noun A sudden, heavy flood of water, or an overwhelming rainstorm.
• drown verb To die, or to kill, by being unable to breathe underwater.
• inundate verb To give someone far more of something than they can deal with, usually requests, messages or work.

Senses

hukkua is used for these senses in English:

• deluge (transitive) To overwhelm.
• drown (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
• get lost (intransitive) To be absent, to seem to be absent.

deluge — full definition

1. noun A sudden, heavy flood of water, or an overwhelming rainstorm.
2. noun An overwhelming amount of anything arriving at once.
3. verb To overwhelm someone with a large amount of something.

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.

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