different between oversupply vs inundate

English

Etymology

From over- +? supply.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??v?s??pl??/

Verb

oversupply (third-person singular simple present oversupplies, present participle oversupplying, simple past and past participle oversupplied)

1. To supply more than is needed.

Noun

oversupply (countable and uncountable, plural oversupplies)

1. An excessive supply. [from 19th c.]
   • 2012, Jurek Martin, ‘A Singular President’, Literary Review, 401:

     He does not like twisting arms, LBJ's forte, preferring the force of reason, a commodity not in over-supply in the nation's capital.

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?