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/ˈɪnəndˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Inundate v. t. (past & past part. inundated; pres. part. inundating)

To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town.

To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country was inundated with bills of credit.

Synonyms: To overflow; deluge; flood; overwhelm; submerge; drown.

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Etymology of 'Inundate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inundate" Quotes from Famous Books

... scope for their fiery energies, they had betaken themselves to the prairie; and in them seemed to be revived, with redoubled force, that fierce spirit which impelled their ancestors, scarce more lawless than themselves, from the German forests, to inundate Europe and break to pieces the Roman empire. A fortnight afterward this unfortunate party passed Fort Laramie, while we were there. Not one of their missing oxen had been recovered, though they had remained encamped ...

— The Oregon Trail • Francis Parkman, Jr.

... season was dry, a great war would break out, which would embrace all the lands of Lithuania, Zmudz, and Prussia. But should the king rush to the assistance of Witold then a day must follow in which the flood would inundate the German or the other half of the world, or would be forced back for long ages ...

— The Knights of the Cross • Henryk Sienkiewicz

... treasury—four times as much as Spain supplies, including the gold and silver of the New World. You keep it secret, but two fifths of the revenue from all the countries over which Charles reigns are contributed by my provinces. Torrents of ducats inundate your treasury, and yet—yet—it's enough to drive one mad!—in spite of this and the lamentable parsimony with which the Emperor deprives himself of both great and small pleasures—it is simply absurd!—the story is always: The finances are at the lowest ebb—save and ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... of other scenes that came much later in my forgotten life. He reminded me of my trip to Torquay, where I first met him: and all at once the whole history of my old visits to the Moores came back like a flood to me. The memory seemed to inundate and overwhelm my brain. They were the happiest time of all life, those delightful visits, when I met Jack and fell in love with him, and half confided my love to my Cousin Minnie. Strange to say, though at Torquay itself I'd forgotten it all, in that ...

— Recalled to Life • Grant Allen

... the darkness, breathing deeply of the mountain smell and getting his bearings. It was more than darkness about him. An occasional light burning dimly here and there gave to it the appearance of a sea of ink threatening to inundate him. The storm had not broken, but it was close, and the air was filled with a creeping warning. The moaning of thunder was low, and yet very near, as if smothered by the hand of a mighty force preparing to ...

— The Alaskan • James Oliver Curwood

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