inundate

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Pronunciation

/ˈɪnʌndeɪt/(IN-un-dayt)

Part of speech

verbneutral

Chinese

① 淹没 ② 使应接不暇（大量涌入）

Definition

(1) To flood an area with water. (2) To overwhelm with a huge amount of things.

Word family

  • inundation/ˌɪnʌnˈdeɪʃən/(n)洪水/大量涌入

Collocations

  • inundated with requests
  • inundated with emails
  • inundated with calls
  • flood inundated

Examples

  1. 1.After the viral video, the company was inundated with orders. (overwhelmed)
  2. 2.Heavy rains inundated the low-lying villages. (flooded)

Synonyms

  • flood/flʌd/— overwhelm with large quantity
  • overwhelm/ˌəʊvəˈwɛlm/— too much to handle
  • swamp/swɒmp/— overload, informal

Etymology

from Latin "inundare" = to overflow — in- (into) + unda (wave) — waves flooding in