Definitions
fill or cover completely, usually with water
Word origin
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).
Used in a sentence
“The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.”
“The agency was inundated with phone calls.”
“That books are pouring off the world’s presses at unprecedented rates is a fact often alluded to as a flood that is inundating libraries and the book trades.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Cover completely”8 letters
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