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inundate
to overwhelm someone with an excessive amount of something
Synonyms
- overwhelm
- deluge
- swamp
Antonyms
- trickle
inundate in a sentence
Complaints began to inundate the customer service line after the outage.
Within hours of the announcement, thousands of emails inundated the company's inbox, crashing the server twice before midnight.
Where it comes from
From Latin inundare 'to overflow, flood'
Memory hook
IN + UNDA (Latin for wave) — waves of stuff flooding in all at once.
Read it in context
- The Eastern Turn History