Definitions for inundates

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inundates in·un·date

Spelling: [in-uh n-deyt, -uhn-, in-uhn-deyt]

IPA: /ˈɪn ənˌdeɪt, -ʌn-, ɪnˈʌn deɪt/

Inundates is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 537 anagrams from letters in inundates (adeinnstu).

Definitions for inundates

verb (used with object)

1. to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge.
2. to overwhelm:

Origin of inundates

1615-25; Latin inundātus, past participle of inundāre to flood, overflow, equivalent to in- in-² + und(a) wave + -ātus -ate¹

Examples for inundates

I am willing to inundate you with glories and splendors and lightnings.

Do we not hear it said every day, "The foreigner is about to inundate us with his products?"

If they inundate us with their products, it is because they expect to be inundated with ours in return.

I have known freshets in March to inundate the country for miles.

If then, they inundate us with their products, it is because they expect to be inundated with ours.

It was the month of July; the Nile was about to inundate the country.

Now it has a different meaning: to inundate someone with profanity and insults.

And it surged within him all the more, because he could not—as the mother does—inundate all the world with it.

“Flaming” was one of the first, meaning to inundate someone with email spam.

A wave—it was like that—a wave of strong self-possession seemed to inundate him.