Inundate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɪn.ənˌdeɪt/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Inundate is a verb meaning To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
Meaning
To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
More Meanings
- To overwhelm.
Example Sentences
The agency was inundated with phone calls.
The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.
That books are pouring off the world’s presses at unprecedented rates is a fact often alluded to as a flood that is inundating libraries and the book trades.
I don't know any quarter in England where you get such undeniable mutton—mutton that eats like mutton, instead of the nasty watery, stringy, turnipy stuff, neither mutton nor lamb, that other countries are inundated with.
Word Forms
- inundates
- inundating
- inundated
Synonyms for inundate
Depending on context, synonyms include swamp, deluge, flood, beflood, submerge.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include deluge, submerge, flood, swamp, drown, beflood.
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