hukuttaa — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bury verb To place a body in the ground, typically as part of a funeral.
- 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.
- 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.
Senses
hukuttaa is used for these senses in English:
- bury (often, figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- deluge (transitive) To overwhelm.
- drown (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
- drown (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
- flood To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- flood (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- overwhelm To engulf, surge over and submerge.
bury — full definition
- verb To place a body in the ground, typically as part of a funeral.
- verb To put something in the ground and cover it over.
- verb To hide or suppress a feeling, memory, or fact.
- verb To put an end to something, such as a disagreement.
deluge — full definition
- noun A sudden, heavy flood of water, or an overwhelming rainstorm.
- noun An overwhelming amount of anything arriving at once.
- verb To overwhelm someone with a large amount of something.