The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.
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Inundate
//ˈɪn.ənˌdeɪt//
Synonyms for "inundate" (107 found)
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Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (32)
Related words (53)
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Translations
54 translations across 24 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- κατακλύζω verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
- κατακλύζω verb (to overwhelm)
Bulgarian
2 entries- заливам verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
- наводнявам verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
Catalan
2 entries- inundar verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
- inundar verb (to overwhelm)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 氾濫 /氾滥 verb (to overwhelm)
- 泛滥 verb (to overwhelm)
- 淹沒 /淹没 verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
Czech
2 entries- zaplavit verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
- zaplavit verb (to overwhelm)
Dutch
1 entries- inunderen verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
Finnish
3 entries- hukkua verb (to overwhelm)
- hukuttaa verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
- hukuttaa verb (to overwhelm)
French
2 entries- inonder verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
- inonder verb (to overwhelm)
Galician
4 entries- alagar verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
- anegar verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
- asolagar verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
- inundar verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
German
1 entries- überfluten verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
Hindi
1 entries- परिप्लावित verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
Ido
1 entries- inundar verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
Irish
1 entries- plúch verb (to overwhelm)
Italian
2 entries- inondare verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
- inondare verb (to overwhelm)
Māori
1 entries- whakaparawhenua verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بوغمق verb (to overwhelm)
Persian
2 entries- اشباع کردن verb (to overwhelm)
- غرقه کردن verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
Polish
2 entries- przytłoczyć verb (to overwhelm)
- zalać verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
Portuguese
2 entries- inundar verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
- inundar verb (to overwhelm)
Russian
4 entries- зава́ливать verb (to overwhelm)
- завали́ть verb (to overwhelm)
- зали́ть verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
- залива́ть verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
Spanish
2 entries- inundar verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
- inundar verb (to overwhelm)
Swedish
4 entries- tynga ner verb (to overwhelm)
- överhopa verb (to overwhelm)
- översvämma verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
- översvämma verb (to overwhelm)
Turkish
2 entries- sel basmak verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
- su basmak verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
Welsh
2 entries- gorlifo verb (to cover with large amounts of water)
- gorlifo verb (to overwhelm)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The agency was inundated with phone calls.
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I don't know any quarter in England where you get such undeniable mutton—mutton that eats like mutton, instead of the nasty watery, stringy, turnipy stuff, neither mutton nor lamb, that other countries are inundated with.
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That books are pouring off the world’s presses at unprecedented rates is a fact often alluded to as a flood that is inundating libraries and the book trades.
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