inundateverb [ T ]
uk/ˈɪn.ʌn.deɪt/us/ˈɪn.ʌn.deɪt/inundate verb [ T ] (TOO MUCH)
to give someone so much work or so many things that they cannot deal with it all:
We have been inundated with requests for help.
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Causing difficulties for oneself or others
- be a tall order idiom
- be asking for trouble idiom
- be your own worst enemy idiom
- bugger
- bugger sb about
- dig
- lay
- lay yourself open to attack, criticism, ridicule, etc. idiom
- like pulling teeth idiom
- make a rod for your own back idiom
- make heavy weather of sth idiom
- overburden
- pose
- shoot
- spell trouble idiom
- store
- store sth up
- store up trouble/problems idiom
- subject sb/sth to sth
- wrong-foot
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inundate verb [ T ] (FLOOD)
formal to flood an area with water:
If the dam breaks it will inundate large parts of the town.
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Floods, tides & currents
- backwash
- change
- come
- current
- ebb
- ebb tide
- eddy
- flooded
- floodgate
- flooding
- floodplain
- high water mark
- low-water mark
- neap tide
- overfall
- undertow
- water
- waterlogged
- watermark
- whirlpool
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Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
inundation
noun [ C or U ] uk/ˌɪn.ʌnˈdeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌɪn.ʌnˈdeɪ.ʃən/formal