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inundate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inundate \In*un"date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inundated; p. pr. & vb. n. Inundating.] [L. inundatus, p. p. of inundare to inundate; pref. in- in + undare to rise in waves, to overflow, fr. unda a wave. See Undulate.]
To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town.
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To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country was inundated with bills of credit.
Syn: To overflow; deluge; flood; overwhelm; submerge; drown.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, back-formation from inundation, or else from Latin inundatus, past participle of inundare "to overflow, run over" (see inundation). Related: Inundated; inundating.\n
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To cover with large amounts of water; to flood. 2 To overwhelm.
WordNet
Usage examples of "inundate".
When I left her she was inundated and exhausted with pleasure, while I could do no more.
I heard a great deal of harsh language used against the Pope and against the Cardinal Minister, who had caused the Papal States to be inundated by eighty thousand men, Germans as well as Spaniards.
It was raining so fast that, if it had continued pouring with the same violence for a quarter of an hour, the country would have been inundated.
I asked in vain for a mattress, but even if they had brought me one, it would have been of no use, for the whole floor was inundated.
The Abbe Pizzi, who had been the chief promoter of her apotheosis, was so inundated with pamphlets and satires that for some months he dared not shew his face.
Whenever she came nigh to severing their association, she found herself inundated with reminders of all the helpless creatures that her lifelong companion, Samantha Wyndham, and she had once nurtured as children.
Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and periodically inundate its temperate zones.
Then, all of a sudden, Rauth was inundated with calls that they wanted to hear more.
We kissed whatever took our fancy, and just as Hedvig applied her lips to the mouth of the pistol, it went off and the discharge inundated her face and her bosom.
Nicias was inundated with magicians, and it felt as if we were back in Sayana, seeing everything from fortune-tellers to palmists to conjurers to those who would sell you anything from a love-philter to a poison.
The thought that he might have seminally inundated his own daughters stiffened his manhood again.
In the spring, though it was inundated with heavier runoff and icy patches which threatened footing, the Sharamudoi -- both the chamois-hunting Shamudoi, and the river-dwelling Ramudoi, who formed their opposite half -- scampered up and down like the agile goatlike antelope that inhabited the steep terrain.
We then tried getting out toward the west from Malines, but soon came to a point where the road was inundated, and had to turn back for the third time.
On April 26 the stream became a flood, and while Saul and Barney Mul-doon tried to reason with Markoff Chaney and he struggled in their grip, Ingolstadters found themselves inundated by Frodo Baggins and His Ring, the Mouse That Roars, the Crew of the Flying Saucer, the Magnificent Ambersons, the House I Live In, the Sound of One Hand, the Territorial Imperative, the Druids of Stonehenge, the Heads of Easter Island, the Lost Continent of Mu, Bugs Bunny and His Fourteen Carrots, the Gospel According to Marx, the Card-Carrying Members, the Sands of Mars, the Erection, the Association, the Amalgamation, the St.
Alibert, quoted by Rayer, gives us a report of the case of a young lady who, after a severe fever which followed a very difficult labor, lost a fine head of hair during a discharge of viscid fluid, which inundated the head in every part.