submerger

Nous devons être plus ambitieux, sans quoi les émissions de ces pays nous submergeront à l'avenir.
We must be more ambitious than that, otherwise emissions from these countries will overwhelm us in the future.
Un tel rêve peut parler non seulement de problèmes matériels, mais aussi de tourments mentaux qui submergeront une personne pendant longtemps.
Such a dream can speak not only about material problems, but also about mental torments that will overwhelm a person for a long time.
Tant que ces émigrés ne sont pas immédiatement renvoyés chez eux, sans aide au rapatriement, d'autres vagues d'immigration économique nous submergeront.
As long as these people are not returned to their home country immediately, without repatriation aid, we will constantly be overwhelmed by waves of economic migrants.
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