† inundv.
Obsolete. Chiefly Scottish.
transitive. To inundate, flood. literal and figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > flood or overflow [verb (transitive)]
overruneOE
overflowOE
surround1444
overfleeta1460
infounder1505
overfloat1601
inund1628
deluge1649
inound1657
flood1663
to set on float1692
overflood?1784
inundate1791
float1794
freshet1865
1628 W. Mure Doomesday 586 What ouerflowing spaite, Inunding this Theater great.
1631–2 Acc. Burgh Peebles (Rec. Soc.) 417 The schoole flore whilk wes invndit with the water.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 13 Tyber..impetuously inunding his bankes.
1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence ii. 18 Those Sholes of People..came into Juitland, and thence Inunded the most of Europe.
Derivatives
iˈnunding n. and adj.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun]
streamc950
water floodOE
floodc1000
waterOE
diluvya1325
waterganga1325
flowinga1340
delugec1374
diluvec1386
Noah's floodc1390
overflowing1430
inundation1432
flowa1450
surrounding1449
over-drowninga1500
spate1513
float1523
drowning1539
ravine1545
alluvion1550
surundacion1552
watershot1567
overflow1589
ravage1611
inunding1628
surroundera1642
water breach1669
flooding1799
debacle1802
diluviation1816
deluging1824
superflux1830
whelm1842
come1862
floodage1862
sheet-flood1897
flash flooding1939
flash-flood1940
1628 W. Mure tr. R. Boyd Spirituall Hymne 195 Of ire what hudge, inunding spaite, had quenchde our of-spring weake?
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 317 Such inunding can not be called cherishings.
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