Inundate Definition

ĭnŭn-dāt
inundated, inundates, inundating
verb
inundated, inundates, inundating
To cover with water, especially floodwaters.
American Heritage
To cover or engulf with a flood; deluge.
Webster's New World
To overwhelm with a rush or great amount of anything.
Webster's New World

To overwhelm.

The agency was inundated with phone calls.
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Origin of Inundate

  • Latin inundāre inundāt- in- in in–2 undāre to surge (from unda wave wed-1 in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin inundō.

    From Wiktionary

Inundate Sentence Examples

  • Thus, water, moisture, weep, tears, inundate, irrigate," &c. The word a can also mean " shining, glistening," an idea evidently developed from the shining rippling of water.

  • The storm will inundate low-lying areas, with 4 million people at risk of flooding in the UK alone.

  • In spring and summer the water from the Baltic is sufficiently abundant to inundate the whole surface of the Kattegat and Skagerrak, but in winter the sources of the Baltic current are for the most part dried up by the freezing of the land water.

  • Winter rains regularly inundate large tracts of the site for weeks on end.

  • Higher sea levels could inundate small islands, flood coastal lowlands, and erode sand dunes.

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Words Starting With

IININU

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ETEATE

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Words Starting With I and Ending With E

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With I8 Letter Words Ending With E