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inundate

verb as in drown, overwhelm

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Now it has a different meaning: to inundate someone with profanity and insults.

“Flaming” was one of the first, meaning to inundate someone with email spam.

Without sea-level rise, a 100-year flood would inundate portions of the subway system, the report found.

It is enough that the sea rises or falls by a foot, to inundate vast shores, or to restore them to cultivation and plenty.'

Did a flood of emigration inundate the frontier with an amount of consumers disproportioned to the supply of grain?

Her pure serenity revolted against the currents of life sweeping down upon her, threatening to inundate her.

They were going to inundate the country, they were going to be a very serious proposition indeed.

It is subject to violent floods, which inundate the surrounding country for a distance of 10 to 20 m.

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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to inundate, such as: deluge, engulf, flood, overflow, overrun, and submerge.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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