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inundate
What does inundate mean?
inundate (verb): to cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use inundate in a sentence?
- The basement was inundated after the storm. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce inundate?
/ˈɪnənˌdeɪt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does inundate come from?
First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin inundātus, the perfect passive participle of inundō (“to flood, overflow”), from in- + undō (“to overflow, wave”), from unda (“wave”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to inundate
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “inundate” mean?
to delay or put off an event, appointment, etc
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to lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope
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to cover with large amounts of water; to flood
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to drive away or cause to vanish by scattering
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