What is "inundates"

Usage examples of "inundates".

No supplication, not from me, not when the torrent of thy grace and compassion inundates my soul.

Sometimes a rivulet suddenly bursts through a vault that has been begun, and inundates the laborers.

Sometimes a brook suddenly throws down an arch which has been commenced, and inundates the labourers.

Water inundates the bridge and barrels down the hallway into Reeves's room.

Pouring its impetuous waters through wild tracks covered with trees of little value except for firewood, it sweeps down whole forests in its course, which disappear in tumultuous confusion, whirled away by the stream now loaded with the masses of soil which nourished their roots, often blocking up and changing for a time the channel of the river, which, as if in anger at its being opposed, inundates and devastates the whole country round.

It might be a massive flood that suddenly inundates an entire valley, burying it in mud of the sort that covered the thousands of dinosaur eggs recently discovered in Patagonia.