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Adjective inundated has 2 senses
- flooded, inundated, overcome, overpowered, overwhelmed, swamped, engulfed - rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something; "a desk flooded with applications"; "felt inundated with work"; "too much overcome to notice"; "a man engulfed by fear"; "swamped by work"
Antonym: powerful (indirect, via powerless)
- afloat, awash, flooded, inundated, overflowing - covered with water; "the main deck was afloat (or awash)"; "the monsoon left the whole place awash"; "a flooded bathroom"; "inundated farmlands"; "an overflowing tub"
Antonym: empty (indirect, via full)
Verb inundate has 2 senses
- deluge, flood, inundate, swamp - fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
--1 is one way to fill, fill up, make full
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something
- inundate, deluge, submerge - fill or cover completely, usually with water
--2 is one way to flood
Sample sentence:
The swollen rivers inundate the area with water
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