Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Inundate

Inundate , transitive verb

[Latin inundatus, past participle of inundare to inundate; pref. in- in + undare to rise in waves, to overflow, from unda a wave. See Undulate.]

1.
To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town.
2.
To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country was inundated with bills of credit.