Was heißt »über­flu­ten« auf Englisch?

Das Verb »über­flu­ten« lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • deluge
  • drown
  • flood
  • inundate
  • swamp

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Das Büro ist mit Fan-Post für ihn überflutet.

The office is flooded with fan letters for him.

Das Wasser überflutete die Straßen.

The water flooded the streets.

Der Fluss trat über die Ufer und überflutete die Felder ringsum.

The river overflowed its banks and flooded the fields around it.

Die Toilette war überflutet.

The toilet overflowed.

In einer halben Stunde war das Dorf überflutet.

In half an hour, the village was flooded.

The village had flooded within half an hour.

Die Ebene ist komplett überflutet.

The plain is entirely flooded.

Der Fluss überflutete die ganze Gegend.

The river inundated the whole region.

Synonyme

flu­ten:
pour
stream
surge
über­spü­len:
overflow
wash over

Sinnverwandte Wörter

be­pa­cken:
load up
bom­bar­die­ren:
bomb
bombard
ein­de­cken:
stock up
über­fül­len:
accloy
congest
glut
overcrowd
overfill
overstuff
um­gangs­sprach­lich:
colloquial
colloquially
demotic
nonstandard

Englische Beispielsätze

  • Wetlands play important roles in the ecosystem in purifying water, protecting against flood and erosion, and as both a source of food and habitat for wild animals.

  • I want to watch you drown.

  • Rescue teams from neighbouring districts came to help the victims of the flood.

  • The tidal barrier and flood walls need to be reinforced.

  • The river is in flood.

  • You're more likely to drown in wine than the sea.

  • One is more likely to drown in wine than in the sea.

  • More drown in a glass than in the sea.

  • A flood can be defined as the encroachment of water in an area or region which is usually dry.

  • Yoda, the wise Jedi master, first appeared in the swamp as a crazy frog.

  • A flood ravaged Florence in 1966, causing damage to many priceless artworks.

  • A flood ravaged Florence in 1966, causing damage to many priceless works of art.

  • "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in India."

  • I don't have flood insurance.

  • The flood tide destroyed the sandcastle.

  • Tom's body was found in the swamp.

  • The truth is sometimes submerged, but it doesn't drown.

  • Tom tried to drown himself in the bathtub.

  • He lives alone in a little cottage in the swamp.

  • More than a hundred homes have been damaged by the flood.

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Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: überfluten. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2022, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: überfluten. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 497079, 2290084, 2883452, 8227557, 8310482, 10033543, 11557180, 10547915, 10475918, 10317535, 10059481, 10013003, 9638163, 9602091, 9547863, 9440415, 8009149, 7045221, 7045219, 6621140, 6263135, 6198990, 5796857, 5427963, 4823533, 4751743 & 4705808. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR