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  • It took about twenty minutes for the spindrift to inundate my bivvy sack, a thin nylon envelope shaped exactly like a Baggies sandwich bag, only bigger, to the level of the breathing slit.  (source)
    inundate = fill (with snow)
  • The hospital refused to allow other visitors even though they were inundated by requests, as they wanted me to be able to concentrate on my rehabilitation in private.†  (source)
    inundated = overwhelmed with a large number  OR  flooded (overwhelmed with water)
  • While investigators combed Japan for Mutsuhiro, prosecutors were inundated with some 250 POW affidavits concerning his actions in camps.†  (source)
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  • Moments later we were inundated with a flood of calls from media, clients, families, and children's rights advocates.†  (source)
    inundated = overwhelmed with a large number  OR  flooded (overwhelmed with water)
  • His grief was an inundation—Amazonian.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • I'll inundate you.†  (source)
  • The reaping of the wheat had begun in our north midland county of Loamshire, but the harvest was likely still to be retarded by the heavy rains, which were causing inundations and much damage throughout the country.†  (source)
    inundations = instances of being overwhelmed with a large number  OR  instances of being flooded (overwhelmed with water)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
  • this light which inundates my hand is gold!†  (source)
    inundates = overwhelms with a large number  OR  floods (overwhelms with water)
  • The images and memories start inundating my mind like the floodgates have just been lifted.†  (source)
    inundating = overwhelming with a large number  OR  flooding (overwhelming with water)
  • Adding it to water and active bacteria would quickly get it inundated, replacing any population killed by the Toilet of Doom.†  (source)
    inundated = overwhelmed with a large number  OR  flooded (overwhelmed with water)
  • The inundation of 1802 is one of the actual memories of Parisians of the age of eighty.†  (source)
  • Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and periodically inundate its temperate zones.†  (source)
  • There occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer.†  (source)
    inundations = instances of being overwhelmed with a large number  OR  instances of being flooded (overwhelmed with water)
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