swamp

işe boğmak, bunaltmak

Birine başa çıkabileceğinden fazla iş veya uğraşması gereken şey vermek.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: 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.

Nasıl kullanılır: swamp someone/something with something (Customers swamped us with questions.); be swamped with something (We are swamped with orders.)

Eş anlamlılar: overwhelm, overload

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: swamp someone with something, swamp the office, swamp the system

su basmak, suyla doldurmak

Bir şeyi düzgün çalışamayacak kadar çok suyla kaplamak veya doldurmak.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: 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.

Eş anlamlılar: flood, drench

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: swamp a boat, swamp the deck

bataklık

Genellikle sığ suyla kaplı, ağaçların da bulunabildiği çok ıslak arazi.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: 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.

Eş anlamlılar: wetland, marsh

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: in a swamp, mangrove swamp, drain a swamp, forest swamp