inundate
verb (used with object)
to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge.
had been inundating
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past perfect progressiveof inundate.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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All summer the Chinese government had been inundating the country with anti-Japanese propaganda to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II.
From Time Magazine Archive
But coming after dollars had been inundating currency markets, it was clearly too little, too late.
From Time Magazine Archive
