different between inundate vs inundation

English

Etymology

From Latin inund? (“I flood, overflow”), from und? (“I overflow, I wave”), from unda (“wave”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??n.?n.de?t/
• (UK, also) IPA^(key): /??n.?n.de?t/

Verb

inundate (third-person singular simple present inundates, present participle inundating, simple past and past participle inundated)

1. To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.

   The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.

2. To overwhelm.

   The agency was inundated with phone calls.

   • 1852, The New Monthly Magazine (page 310)

     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.

Synonyms

• (to cover with water): deluge, flood, beflood
• (to overwhelm): deluge, flood, beflood

Related terms

• inundation
• undulate

Translations

Anagrams

• antidune

Esperanto

Adverb

inundate

1. present adverbial passive participle of inundi

Latin

Verb

inund?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of inund?

English

Etymology

From Old French inundacion (“flood”) (French inondation), from Latin inundatio (“flood”), form of inund? (“I flood, overflow”) (English inundate).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

inundation (countable and uncountable, plural inundations)

1. The act of inundating; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds.
2. The state of being inundated; flooding
3. (figuratively) An overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx

   There is an inundation of tourists in summer, but in winter the town is almost deserted.

Related terms

• inundate

Translations