завалити

Ukrainian

Etymology

From за- (za-) +‎ вали́ти (valýty). Compare Russian завали́ть (zavalítʹ), Belarusian завалі́ць (zavalícʹ), Czech zavalit, Polish zawalić.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [zɐʋɐˈɫɪte]
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Verb

завали́ти • (zavalýtypf (imperfective зава́лювати) (transitive)

  1. to cover (with thrown or fallen things)
  2. to pile (to cover with heaps)
  3. to fill, to fill up (with thrown or fallen things)
  4. to block, to block up (with thrown or fallen things)
  5. (figurative, colloquial) to bury, to inundate, to overload, to snow under, to swamp (to overburden or overwhelm with e.g. work, responsibility)
  6. to collapse (to cause to collapse)
  7. (figurative, colloquial) to mess up (to botch, bungle; to perform poorly on)
  8. (figurative, colloquial) to fail, to flunk (not to pass: exam, test, etc.)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • зава́л m (zavál)
  • зава́лення n (zaválennja)
  • зава́листий (zaválystyj)
  • завали́тися pf (zavalýtysja)
  • зава́лище n (zavályšče)
  • за́валь f (závalʹ)
  • зава́льни́й (zaválʹnýj)

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