översvämma — meaning in English

English meaning

• deluge noun A sudden, heavy flood of water, or an overwhelming rainstorm.
• 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.
• overrun verb To spread over or invade a place in large numbers, often taking full control 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

översvämma is used for these senses in English:

• deluge (transitive) To flood with water.
• flood (Internet, ambitransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
• overrun (transitive) To infest, swarm over, flow over.
• swamp (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.

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.

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.

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