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зава́ливать — meaning in English

zavalivat

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English meaning

  • deluge noun A sudden, heavy flood of water, or an overwhelming rainstorm.
  • 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.
  • pile noun A number of things heaped or stacked on top of each other.

Senses

зава́ливать is used for these senses in English:

  • deluge (transitive) To overwhelm.
  • inundate To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
  • inundate To overwhelm.
  • overwhelm To engulf, surge over and submerge.
  • pile (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate

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.

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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