The definition of inundate is to flood or overwhelm with a lot of anything.
(verb)An example of inundate is when you send a perspective new customer 100 pages of brochures and material every day for weeks and weeks.
See inundate in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb inundated, inundating
Origin: < L inundatus, pp. of inundare, to overflow < in-, in, on + undare, to move in waves, flood < unda, a wave: see water
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transitive verb in·un·dat·ed, in·un·dat·ing, in·un·dates
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Origin: Latin inundāre, inundāt-
Origin: : in-, in; see in-2
Origin: + undāre, to surge (from unda, wave; see wed-1 in Indo-European roots)
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