INUNDATE


Meaning of INUNDATE in English

(~s, inundating, ~d)

1.

If you say that you are ~d with things such as letters, demands, or requests, you are emphasizing that you receive so many of them that you cannot deal with them all.

Her office was ~d with requests for tickets...

They have ~d me with fan letters.

= swamp

VERB: be V-ed with n, V n with n, also V n emphasis

2.

If an area of land is ~d, it becomes covered with water.

Their neighborhood is being ~d by the rising waters of the Colorado River.

= flood

VERB: usu passive, be V-ed

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