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Definition of Inundate
1. Verb. Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid. "The images flooded his mind"
Generic synonyms: Fill, Fill Up, Make Full
Derivative terms: Deluge, Flood, Flood, Flooding, Inundation, Inundation
Also: Flood In
2. Verb. Fill or cover completely, usually with water. "The swollen rivers inundate the area with water"
Generic synonyms: Flood
Derivative terms: Deluge, Deluge, Inundation, Submergence, Submergible, Submerging, Submersible
Definition of Inundate
1. v. t. To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town.
Definition of Inundate
1. Verb. To cover with large amounts of water; to flood. ¹
2. Verb. To overwhelm. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inundate
1. to overwhelm with water [v -DATED, -DATING, -DATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inundate
Literary usage of Inundate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... of the cray-fish as to give way and allow the river to inundate the surrounding
country. Similar results have happened in Europe from the subterranean ..."
2. War in Disguise, Or, The Frauds of the Neutral Flags by James Stephen (1806)
"... and enable it still to inundate the plains of Egypt, if its native stream were
drawn off. Besides, the commerce and the colonial resources of Spain and ..."
3. English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order ; with Copious by George Crabb (1883)
"Torrents, flames, and tempests ravage ; war, plague, and famine desolate; armies
of barbarians, who inundate a country, ..."
4. The history of the French revolution, tr. with notes by F. Shoberl by Thomas Carlyle, Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers (1838)
"lins, and almost all the commissioners of the Convention!—to inundate France with
his writings, so proper for forming the mind and the heart! ..."
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