inundate
UK/ˈɪn.ənˌdeɪt//ˈɪn.ənˌdeɪt/
inundate verb: to cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
Verb
inundate (third-person singular simple present inundates, present participle inundating, simple past and past participle inundated)
- To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
- The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.
- To overwhelm.
- The agency was inundated with phone calls.
- I don't know any quarter in England where you get such undeniable mutton—mutton that eats like mutton, instead of the nasty watery, stringy, turnipy stuff, neither mutton nor lamb, that other countries are inundated with.1852, The New Monthly Magazine, page 310
inundate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
inundate in Hindi
- to cover with large amounts of water
- परिप्लावित pariplāvit
inundate in Tamil
- வழிந்தோடு, பெருக்கெடுத்தோடு, வெள்ளத்தால் மூடு, மூழ்கடி, மூழ்கு
inundate in Urdu
- سیلاب آنا
inundate in Bengali
- প্লাবিত করা
More languagesFewer languages
- inundate in Malayalam
- നിറഞ്ഞുകവിഞ്ഞൊഴുകുക, വെള്ളം പെരുകുക, ജലത്തിൽ മുങ്ങുക, നിമജ്ജിപ്പിക്കുക
- inundate in Kannada
- ಮುಳುಗಿ ಹೋಗುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡು, ಪ್ರವಾಹ ಹರಿದು ಮುಳುಗಿಸು, ನೆರೆಬರು, ಮುಳುಗಿ ಹೋಗು
- inundate in Odia
- ବଢ଼ିବା baṛhibā
- inundate in Sanskrit
- प्लावयति plāváyati
- inundate in Persian
- غرقه کردن ġarq kardan, اشباع کردن ešbâ' kardan
Examples of inundate in a sentence
- The island was inundated by the sea, leaving not a trace behind.
- The Budd family has been inundated with pictures of school projects where students find levidromes.
- A similar situation unfolded two decades ago in Sausalito, Calif., when houseboaters were inundated with toadfish calls.
Synonyms of inundate
Forms of inundate
| third-person singular present | inundates |
|---|---|
| present participle | inundating |
| past participle | inundated |
| past | inundated |
Origin of inundate
First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin inundātus, the perfect passive participle of inundō (“to flood, overflow”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- + undō (“to overflow, wave”), from unda (“wave”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Words formed from inundate
Questions about inundate
- What does inundate mean?
- Inundate means to cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
- What is inundate in Hindi?
- Inundate in Hindi is परिप्लावित (pariplāvit). See Inundate meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is inundate?
- Inundate is a verb.
- How do you pronounce inundate?
- Inundate is pronounced /ˈɪn.ənˌdeɪt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of inundate?
- The past tense of inundate is inundated.
Words near inundate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: inundate (page history and authors); inundate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inundate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inundate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inundate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inundate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ବଢ଼ିବା (Odia) (page history and authors); प्लावयति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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