Both Uses
inundate
in
A Tale of Two Cities
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- 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 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(inundate as in: inundated by the flood) flood (cover with water)
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(2)
(inundate as in: inundated with requests) overwhelm with a large number
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)