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Definition

overwhelm with a large number

or:

flood (overwhelm with water)

We were inundated with requests.

inundated = overwhelmed with a large number

We were inundated with phone calls.

inundated = overwhelmed with a large number

The basement was inundated in the storm.

inundated = flooded

Water surged across the once-dry floor of the sink, inundating farms and settlements, eventually drowning four hundred square miles of desert and giving birth to a landlocked ocean.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

inundating = flooding

To stop the inundation of her tears
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

inundation = flood

(editor's note: 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.)

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.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

inundate = fill (with snow)

We were led out of the prison gates and immediately inundated with the press.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
"So much to discuss," Aro said, his tone suddenly that of an inundated businessman.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
Moments later we were inundated with a flood of calls from media, clients, families, and children's rights advocates.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
He is inundated with Howardisms suddenly; all true, those old and wrinkled maxims, proverbs, clichés.
Judith Guest -- Ordinary People
While investigators combed Japan for Mutsuhiro, prosecutors were inundated with some 250 POW affidavits concerning his actions in camps.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
We must do something before we're inundated.
Eugene Ionesco -- Rhinoceros
The red blood inundated her face, previously so pale.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
I am so satiated with the great number of detestable books with which we are inundated that I am reduced to punting at faro.
Voltaire -- Candide
Her face was inundated with an angry colour and she looked as if she would attack someone with her hands.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
His grief was an inundation—Amazonian.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice

The images and memories start inundating my mind like the floodgates have just been lifted.
Colleen Hoover -- Hopeless
There was a... field surge... more like a tsunami than a tide... the Sphinx... the artifact Rachel was in... was totally inundated.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
Her organism seemed to be so inundated by toxins that she was ravaged by numerous illnesses, sometimes alternately, sometimes all at once.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
But at that moment no fear of falling in of the roof, or even of inundation was capable of stopping us.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth

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