Both Uses of
inundate
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Their three heads had been close together during this brief discourse, and it had been as much as they could do to hear one another, even then: so tremendous was the noise of the living ocean, in its irruption into the Fortress, and its inundation of the courts and passages and staircases.†
Chpt 2.21
- Here and there, especially at first, the inundation started on them and swept by; but when they had done descending, and were winding and climbing up a tower, they were alone.†
Chpt 2.21 *
Definition:
overwhelm with a large number
or:
flood (overwhelm with water)
or:
flood (overwhelm with water)