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inflooded

inflooded is the simple past and past participle of inflood.

Meaning of inflood

Verb

inflood (third-person singular simple present infloods, present participle inflooding, simple past and past participle inflooded)

  1. (transitive) Of a river, water, etc.: to flood or flow into (a place).
    • But O—Alas! 'twas in thy native town, / Franklin, they strove to crush the hero down; / Revil'd and stamp'd him with the stain of blood, / That he in battle should the foe inflood!1827, [Richard Emmons], “Canto VII. The Cruise of the Chesapeake.”, in The Fredoniad: Or, Independence Preserved. An Epick Poem on the Late War of 1812. […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: […] [F]or the...
  2. (intransitive) To flood or flow in; to inflow.
    • [T]hough remote / From the main ocean many a mile / Inflooded past cape, creek, and kyle, / The sea-loch flanked by precipice walls, / With ever-lessening murmur crawls, / Till 'neath the Pass he lies subdued / By the o'er-aweing solitude; […]1877 January, [John Campbell] Shairp, “The Clearing of the Glens”, in Alexander Mackenzie, editor, The Celtic Magazine: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk...

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What is inflooded the simple past and past participle of?
Inflooded is the simple past and past participle of inflood.

Words near inflooded in the dictionary

  1. inflictors
  2. inflicts
  3. inflight
  4. infliximab
  5. inflood
  6. inflooded
  7. inflooding
  8. infloodings
  9. infloods
  10. infloration
  11. inflorations

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