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Verb: inundate  'i-nun,deyt
  1. Fill or cover completely, usually with water
    "The storm inundated the coastal town";
    - deluge, submerge
     
  2. Fill or become beyond capacity with too large a volume of something
    "the basement was inundated after the storm";
    - deluge, flood, swamp

Derived forms: inundating, inundates, inundated

Type of: fill, fill up, flood

Encyclopedia: Inundate