inundate
verb (used with object)
to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge.
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In the Assyrian inscriptions he appears as a god of war, and the kings constantly compare the destruction which their armies had wrought with that of "Adad the inundator."
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches