as in to flood
to cover with a flood
water from the overflowing bathtub inundated the bathroom floor
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Recent Examples of inundate
And on average, floods inundate 20% to 25% of the country’s land each year.
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Pintu Kumar Mahla, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
Over the past few seasons, whenever the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles have been on national television, Foligno has been inundated with text messages from friends and family who have noticed Foligno’s stunning resemblance to Eagles coach Nick Sirianni.
—Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
But state governments are, and their firings are now inundating the courts.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2025
The floods have also left 11 people missing, inundated more than 116,000 houses and 5,000 hectares of crops, and damaged roads and railways, cutting off traffic and power in several areas, the government’s disaster agency said in a report.
—Reuters, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
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Pintu Kumar Mahla, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
Over the past few seasons, whenever the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles have been on national television, Foligno has been inundated with text messages from friends and family who have noticed Foligno’s stunning resemblance to Eagles coach Nick Sirianni.
—Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
But state governments are, and their firings are now inundating the courts.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2025
The floods have also left 11 people missing, inundated more than 116,000 houses and 5,000 hectares of crops, and damaged roads and railways, cutting off traffic and power in several areas, the government’s disaster agency said in a report.
—Reuters, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inundate
Verb
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Construction fines at the site For Smith, the biggest concern was flooding in his backyard.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Nov. 2025
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Theories range from the Fitzgerald striking a shoal and suffering bottom damage to flooding through the freighter's hatch covers, which filled the ship with water and sank it, to rogue waves, to structural flaws in the ship that the 1975 storm made deadly.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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Images circulating on social media show a massive fire engulfing the Waldo's store.—
NPR,
NPR,
2 Nov. 2025
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The disaster forced terrified guests and hotel staff to leap from windows or dangle bedsheets to escape rooms engulfed in smoke and flames.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Those skills will likely overwhelm just about every competitor this trio faces this season.—
Sam Vecenie,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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And even if a few curve balls come in, that doesn’t necessarily overwhelm me.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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One villager has drowned in flash floods in the eastern province of Catanduanes, officials confirmed to the Associated Press, while another died in Catbalogan city in eastern Samar province after being pinned by debris from a collapsed home.—
Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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Even more poignant, however, is the Rosemary's Baby angle, where the innocence of childhood is drowned in blood and the notion that a young person reared in a loving environment should develop into a compassionate adult is perverted into unthinkable horror.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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