inondare — meaning in English
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English meaning
- deluge noun A sudden, heavy flood of water, or an overwhelming rainstorm.
- flood noun An overflow of water that covers land that is normally dry.
- flush verb To clean by flooding with water, especially a toilet.
- inundate verb To give someone far more of something than they can deal with, usually requests, messages or work.
- sluice noun A gate or channel that controls the flow of water, often found in canals or dams.
Senses
inondare is used for these senses in English:
- deluge (transitive) To flood with water.
- deluge (transitive) To overwhelm.
- flood To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- flood (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- flood (Internet, ambitransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
- flush To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- sluice (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
deluge — full definition
- noun A sudden, heavy flood of water, or an overwhelming rainstorm.
- noun An overwhelming amount of anything arriving at once.
- verb To overwhelm someone with a large amount of something.
flood — full definition
- noun An overflow of water that covers land that is normally dry.
- noun A large, overwhelming amount of something arriving all at once.
- verb To cover land with water, or to fill something with an overwhelming amount.
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