Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cover with water, especially floodwaters.
- transitive verb To overwhelm as if with a flood; swamp.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To overspread with or as if with a flood; overflow; flood; deluge.
- Hence To gorge with excessive circulation or abundance; fill inordinately; overspread; overwhelm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood.
- transitive verb To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
cover with large amounts ofwater ; toflood . - verb To
overwhelm .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb fill or cover completely, usually with water
- verb fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Richard let the power, the magic, the rage of the sword inundate him, storm through him, just to feel something.
Temple of the Winds Goodkind, Terry 1997
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Denzil Lush, Senior Judge said the Government had failed to anticipate the volume of work that would "inundate" the tribunal that rules on the financial affairs and medical treatment of the elderly and mentally ill, or the "burden" it would place on staff.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The group currently is focusing on Lake Tahoe, where there are two snowmobile companies that "inundate" Spooner Summit and Brockway Summit, founder Marcus Libkind said.
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He called on people around the world to "inundate" the Valley Zoo with requests to move Lucy to a California sanctuary.
Dose.ca Music briefs Gordon Kent, Edmonton Journal 2010
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The group currently is focusing on Lake Tahoe, where there are two snowmobile companies that "inundate" Spooner Summit and Brockway Summit, founder Marcus Libkind said.
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Now it is dangerous and they leave all their trash coming in, inundate our schools and hospitals and don't contribute to the tax base.
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Screeching from the NY Times and hysteria of tidal wave proportions from the formerly known Reality Based Community to inundate America.
VA AG Cuccinelli to invoke Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act over Climategate? | RedState 2010
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Second, the last-ditch attempts to save Bangkok by opening the flood gates to inundate surrounding areas reflect a certain entitled mentality among the Thai elite.
Yingluck's First Test Pavin Chachavalpongpun 2011
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State liquor retailers have campaigned hard against the bill, arguing that it would hurt small liquor stores and allow California wines to inundate the New Jersey market.
Years of Growth at Risk for N.J. Wine Heather Haddon 2012
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Thai villagers paddle a boat past a giant statue of the leaning Buddha as floodwaters inundate an ancient temple in Ayutthaya province, north of Bangkok, on Monday.
Floodwaters Take Heavy Toll on Thailand James Hookway 2011
sweetzingiber commented on the word inundate
to overwhelm
August 1, 2009