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überfluten — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • 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.
  • overflow noun Liquid or material that spills over because there is too much of it.
  • swamp noun An area of wet, spongy, low-lying land, often with trees, that supports rich but sometimes difficult-to-access wildlife.

Senses

überfluten is used for these senses in English:

  • flood To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
  • flood (Internet, ambitransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
  • inundate To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
  • swamp (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.

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.

inundate — full definition

  1. verb To give someone far more of something than they can deal with, usually requests, messages or work.
  2. verb To cover an area with water; to flood.

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