MEANING
1. To cover an area with a large amount of water.
2. To send or supply so much that the recipient struggles to handle it.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- inundate low ground
- inundate the valley
On the page
The river inundated the lower fields during the night.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- inundate
- Past tense
- inundated
- Past participle
- inundated
- Present participle
- inundating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- inundate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are inundating
- Present perfect
- have/has inundated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been inundating
- Past
- inundated
- Past continuous
- was/were inundating
- Past perfect
- had inundated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been inundating
- Future
- will inundate
- Future continuous
- will be inundating
- Future perfect
- will have inundated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been inundating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: inundate; inundates; inundated; inundated; inundating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: inundates.
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