Dutch-English translation for "verzwelgen"

"verzwelgen" English translation

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verzwelgen {vb} (also: opslokken)

verzwelgen {vb} (also: gulpen)

to quaff (off) {vb}

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Ze moesten dit dorpje in 1997 verhuizen toen een hoge duin het dreigde te verzwelgen.

They had to move this village in 1987 as a huge dune threatened to swallow it.

Maar cruciaal is om een buitengewoon stuk landschap proberen terug te geven, in plaats van het te laten verzwelgen door de omgeving.

But the key part is trying to give back an extraordinary piece of landscape, rather than engulf it.

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