inundate

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  1. transitive verb To cover with water, especially floodwaters.
  2. transitive verb To overwhelm as if with a flood; swamp: The theater was inundated with requests for tickets.

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  • In addition to the 5,000 or more marketing messages per day that inundate the average American consumer, there were the Enron, New York Times plagiarism and other corporate issues in the late 1990s and early 2000s that pushed the consumer farther away from a level of trust with the average company. —  Small Business Brief / Current News
  • S500 will not inundate America with immigrants from any other country or area, or the most populated and economically deprived nations of Africa and Asia ... —  Right Truth
  • We needed to inundate poor countries with contraceptives and run these massive social marketing campaigns to convince people that they wanted smaller family sizes. —  CampusProgress.org
  • Simplicity means companies should no longer inundate us with 72 different TV sets, as —  Ubercool
  • Ameisen's book has caused a sensation in France (where he was born and now lives), according to a report from the BBC, prompting patients to inundate doctors with requests for the drug. —  Salon
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  1. Latin inundāre, inundāt- : in-, in; see in-2 + undāre, to surge (from unda, wave; see wed-1 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Latin inundatus, past participle of inundare (later Italian inondare, innondare = Spanish Portuguese inundar = French inonder), overflow, from in, on, + undare, rise in waves: see ound, and cf. abound, redound, surround.
 

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