inundation

inundate | American Dictionary

inundate
verb[ T ]
us/ˈɪn·ʌnˌdeɪt/
to bring to a place or person too much of something, so that it cannot be dealt with:
After appearing on TV they were inundated with telephone calls for a week.
We were inundated with complaints when the show had to be canceled.
To inundate is also to flood (an area) with water:
Floods inundated various Indian communities.

Examples of inundate

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The area of land inundated increases with time, as the sea level increases.
Busy practitioners are inundated with clinical guidelines (26).
Sites with much lower land values may have to be inundated as the cost of protection may exceed the land value.
A secondary dispersal of the propagules is not likely, since the sites were not inundated during the discussed time.
In the field, we observed unpredictable flooding after heavy rain events that inundated stream margins, and submerged all herbs in plots adjacent to streams.
If coastline is inundated, new land becomes beachfront.
Rather, both ' air-conditioned ' politics and ' veranda ' politics are advancing simultaneously, inundating a previously bureaucratised political sphere.
188 ronmental stimuli, feelings of being flooded and inundated, and inability to focus attention to relevant details.
At this seemingly stable point, however, all four voices suddenly break out in semiquavers; this motion recurs in bars 34-35, completely inundating the texture of the whole passage.
Rivers and patches of seasonally inundated f orest o ccur both inside and outside o f t he grove, a nd to varying extent along i ts edges.
They accounted for secondary vegetation and showed that marshes and wet (seasonally inundated) forest did not affect elephant distribution, at least in the wet season when they conducted their study.
The savanna to the west is inundated up to a meter deep in some places during the growing season, and this prohibits the cultivation of staple food crops.
Points may be missed, if the primary source is not ready at hand, while at other times one may feel oneself inundated with extended passages from related sources.
In the mainland, the fraction of land inundated would be small (except possibly for a small coastal country) and so would have no effect on land prices in general.
Therefore, among these five species, these results suggested that seeds germinating in dunes may be less salinity-tolerant than seeds of species growing in habitats periodically inundated with sea water.
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