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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

  1. verb To place a body in the ground, typically as part of a funeral.
  2. verb To put something in the ground and cover it over.
  3. verb To hide or suppress a feeling, memory, or fact.
  4. verb To put an end to something, such as a disagreement.

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.

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