swamp

submerger, déborder

Donner à quelqu’un plus de travail ou de problèmes qu’il ne peut en gérer.

En anglais simple : To give someone more work or things to deal with than they can manage.

• The calls swamped our small office.
• I am swamped with work today.
• Customers swamped the website with orders.

Comment l'utiliser : swamp someone/something with something (Customers swamped us with questions.); be swamped with something (We are swamped with orders.)

Synonymes : overwhelm, overload

Expressions courantes : swamp someone with something, swamp the office, swamp the system

inonder, submerger

Couvrir ou remplir quelque chose de tellement d’eau qu’il ne fonctionne plus correctement.

En anglais simple : To cover or fill something with so much water that it cannot work properly.

• A wave swamped the boat.
• Heavy rain swamped the lower deck.
• Our canoe was swamped before we reached the shore.

Synonymes : flood, drench

Expressions courantes : swamp a boat, swamp the deck

marécage

Terrain très humide, souvent couvert d’eau peu profonde et où poussent des arbres.

En anglais simple : An area of very wet land, often covered with shallow water and trees.

• Frogs live in the swamp.
• We walked carefully through the muddy swamp.
• These swamps provide homes for many birds.

Synonymes : wetland, marsh

Expressions courantes : in a swamp, mangrove swamp, drain a swamp, forest swamp