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inundate
Meaning: to overwhelm someone with an excessive amount of something
inundate in a sentence
How inundate is used in real sentences:
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.
“Merchants then inundated the directors with petitions, calculations, and warnings about other ships that had vanished along the same corridor.”
— from the passage The Eastern Turn
Synonyms for inundate
Other words for inundate — overwhelm, deluge and swamp — carry the same meaning.
- overwhelm
- deluge
- swamp
Antonyms of inundate
Words that mean the opposite of inundate:
- trickle
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.