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# inundated

«inundated» in Mova's school dictionary: **Getting so many things, like letters, calls or jobs, that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (inundated); past form of the verb inundate (inundate, inundates, inundated, inundating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Getting so many things, like letters, calls or jobs, that it is hard to deal with them all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundated/#m1)

2) Flooded; covered with a large amount of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundated/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons it means flooded (fields inundated by the river); in everyday life and news it means overwhelmed by too much of something (inundated with requests). Phrases: inundated with, inundated by.

### examples

- The school office was inundated with phone calls after the snow day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundated/#x1)
- After the heavy rain, the fields were inundated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundated/#x2)
- The vet was inundated with sick puppies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundated/#x3)
- Our class was inundated with entries for the poetry prize. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundated/#x4)
- The town was inundated when the river burst its banks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundated/#x5)
- Santa is inundated with letters every December. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundated/#x6)
- The shop was inundated with customers on the first day of the sale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundated/#x7)
- Here he found the country inundated with disastrous floods, towns and villages destroyed, and everywhere signs of desolation and ruin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundated/#x8)

### note

Usually passive: «be inundated with/by». More formal than «flooded» or «swamped». Pronounced IN-un-day-tid. Not connected with «in a date».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «inundated» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundated/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.