inundate
verb/ˈɪn.ənˌdeɪt/UK/ˈɪn.ənˌdeɪt/CA/ˈɪn.ənˌdæɪt/
Etymology
First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin inundātus, the perfect passive participle of inundō (“to flood, overflow”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- + undō (“to overflow, wave”), from unda (“wave”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
- borrowed from inundātus
Definitions
To cover with large amounts of water
To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
- The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.
To overwhelm.
- The agency was inundated with phone calls.
- 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.
- 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.
The neighborhood
- synonymswamp
- neighborinundation
- neighborinundator
- neighborundulate
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA