завалити

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

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завали́ти • (zavalýty) pf (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.)

• Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2014), “завалити”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. (in Ukrainian), volumes 5 (з – зв'я́нути), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN, page 57
• “завалити”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1972), “завалити”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. (in Ukrainian), volume 3 (З), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 35
• A. Rysin, V. Starko, Yu. Marchenko, O. Telemko, et al. (compilers, 2007–2022), “завалити”, in Russian-Ukrainian Dictionaries
• A. Rysin, V. Starko, et al. (compilers, 2011–2020), “завалити”, in English-Ukrainian Dictionaries
• “завалити”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
• “завалити”, in Словник.ua (in Ukrainian)