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had inundated

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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

Their migrations may be regarded, therefore, as the last wave of that great Teutonic movement which in earlier times had inundated western Europe and overwhelmed the Roman Empire.

From Early European History by Webster, Hutton