inundate
verb/ˈɪnʌndeɪt/
/ˈɪnʌndeɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they inundate | /ˈɪnʌndeɪt/ /ˈɪnʌndeɪt/ |
| he / she / it inundates | /ˈɪnʌndeɪts/ /ˈɪnʌndeɪts/ |
| past simple inundated | /ˈɪnʌndeɪtɪd/ /ˈɪnʌndeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle inundated | /ˈɪnʌndeɪtɪd/ /ˈɪnʌndeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form inundating | /ˈɪnʌndeɪtɪŋ/ /ˈɪnʌndeɪtɪŋ/ |
- [often passive] to give or send somebody so many things that they cannot deal with them all synonym overwhelm, swamp
- be inundated (with something) We have been inundated with offers of help.
- She's inundated with work at the moment.
- inundate something with something Fans inundated the radio station with calls.
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- inundate something (formal) to cover an area of land with a large amount of water synonym flood
- Flood waters inundate the river plain each spring.
- Many sheep were lost in the floods and the city was inundated.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: (earlier (late Middle English) as inundation) from Latin inundat- ‘flooded’, from the verb inundare, from in- ‘into, upon’ + undare ‘to flow’ (from unda ‘a wave’).
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