submerger

S'ils savaient ce que je fais, ils submergeraient cette famille.
If they find out what I'm doing, they'll be all over that poor family.
Il y a plein de choses que nous faisons ou pensons que nous racontons volontiers à notre médecin, notre avocat, notre psy, notre époux, ou notre meilleur ami mais qui nous submergeraient de honte si le reste du monde les apprenait.
There are all sorts of things that we do and think that we're willing to tell our physician or our lawyer or our psychologist or our spouse or our best friend that we would be mortified for the rest of the world to learn.
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