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verb (used with object), in·un·dat·ed, in·un·dat·ing.
1.
to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge.
2.
to overwhelm: inundated with letters of protest.
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Inundation
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Example Sentences
- The movie evokes a theme that has increasingly surfaced in the contemporary world of media inundation.
- The project has tested our technical resources and our editing staff, but we've rejoiced in the inundation.
- Now it is an earthquake, now a conflagration, now an inundation.
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inundation
early 15c., from L. inundationem (nom. inundatio) "an overflowing," from inundatus, pp. of inundare "to overflow," from in- "onto" + undare "to flow," from unda "wave" (see water).
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