submerger

C'est une autre vague d'émotion qui submergeait l'Amérique rurale et n'a pas été entendue, le fait de penser que les grands médias étaient de parti pris.
That's another groundswell kind of emotion that was going on in the middle of America and not being heard, in thinking that the mainstream media was biased.
Quand je lisais les lettres de maman, la nostalgie me submergeait.
When I read letters from Mom, I was overcome by homesickness.
Le désir que sa nouvelle collègue éveillait en Tom le submergeait.
Tom was overwhelmed by the lust he felt for his new coworker.
L’eau qui submergeait les salons des gens, les supermarchés qui tremblaient. Ce sont des images de journalistes-citoyens partagées immédiatement sur Internet.
Water lifting up inside people's living rooms, supermarkets shaking—these were images shot by citizen journalists and instantly shared on the internet.
Paula était en colère contre ses collègues, mais elle les submergeait de gentillesse au lieu de leur parler directement et de régler le problème.
Paula was mad at her coworkers, but she killed them with kindness rather than confronting them and dealing with the problem.
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