SWAMP

[swɔmp]

болото, топь

заливать, затоплять

засыпать, заваливать

засасывать

болотный, болотистый

swamp: translation

swamp swamp [swɒmp ǁ swɑːmp] verb [transitive]

1. to suddenly give someone a lot of work or things to deal with:

swamp be swamped (with something)

2. if goods or manufacturers swamp an economy, market etc, there are so many of them available that the price of goods becomes very low:

swamp something with something

swamp UK US /swɒmp/ verb [T]

► to have too many of something, or give someone too much to do: »

Huge volumes of fake designer brands have swamped the EU market.

be swamped with sth »

After the severe storms, insurance companies are expecting to be swamped with claims.

be swamped by sth »

Consumers are feeling swamped by high levels of credit card debt.

»

We've all been swamped with work since the policy changes.

»

swamped with calls/emails/letters

1. 1) заливать, затоплять

2) погружаться, тонуть

2. засыпать, заваливать (письмами, заявлениями и т. п.)

3. наводнять

4. губить

5. обыкн. pass засасывать

6. амер. очищать волок (от подлеска, хвороста и т. п.)

swamp: translation

baygall, be prodigal with, bind, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, cascade, cataract, cesspool, cloaca, cloaca maxima, clutch, complication, crunch, deluge, dip, drain, drown, duck, dump, dunk, embarrassing position, embarrassment, engulf, everglade, fen, fenland, fine how-do-you-do, float, flood, flood the market, flow on, founder, garbage dump, glade, hell to pay, hobble, hog wallow, holm, hot water, how-do-you-do, imbroglio, immerse, inundate, jam, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mess, mire, mix, moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud, mud flat, overbrim, overburden, overcome, overdose, overequip, overflow, overfurnish, overlavish, overload, overprovender, overprovide, overprovision, overrun, oversell, overstock, oversupply, overtax, overwhelm, parlous straits, pass, peat bog, pickle, pinch, plight, pour on, pour out, pour over, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, purgatory, quag, quagmire, quicksand, rain, run over, salt marsh, scrape, scuttle, septic tank, sewer, shaking, sink, slob land, slop, slosh, slough, sluice, snow under, sough, spill, spill out, spill over, spot, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, strait, straits, submerge, sump, swale, swampland, sweep, taiga, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tricky spot, unholy mess, view, wallow, wash, whelm

swamp [swɒmp]

1. n

1) боло́то, топь

2) attr. боло́тный; боло́тистый;

swamp fever маляри́я

;

2. v

1) залива́ть, затопля́ть

2) (обыкн. p. p.) засыпа́ть, зава́ливать (письмами, заявлениями и т.п.)

3) (обыкн. p. p.) заса́сывать

* * *

• затонуть

• наполнившись водой

• соленое болото

1. гл. заполнять водой, заливать воду

2. геол. болото

* * *

• лесное болото

• топь

swamp: translation

1) a type of wetland that is dominated by woody vegetation and does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits. Swamps may be fresh water or saltwater and tidal or nontidal

2) a small, flat-bottomed row-boat (Newfoundland). Also called swamp bottom

— back marsh swamp

— freshwater swamp

— slope swamp

— upland swamp

1) заболотить

swamp: translation

  an area, usually vegetated, permanently flooded or at least saturated by groundwater.