inundate
verb (used with object)
to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge.
had inundated
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past perfectof inundate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Initial attempts at finding the family were hampered by the weather, which had inundated highways and closed the main railway to the eastern states.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2024
So many patients sick with RSV had inundated Connecticut Children’s Medical Center that they had to be treated in hallways and playrooms.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2023
Mourad Abazid, 56, a government employee from the low-lying village of Kobaniya, on the Nile’s west bank, said the floods had inundated his house, forcing him and his family to shelter at a mosque.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2021
In May, Billy Whitten had been hopeful that the floodwater that had inundated more than a million acres of land in the Mississippi Delta would be gone by now.
From Fox News ● Jul. 31, 2019
The swamp was produced by the labors of the beaver, which, by damming up a stream, had inundated a portion of the valley.
From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville
