inundateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin inundō (“I flood, overflow”), from undō (“I overflow, I wave”), from unda (“wave”).

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.ən.deɪt/
• (英国発音, also) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.ʌn.deɪt/

動詞

inundate (三人称単数 現在形 inundates, 現在分詞 inundating, 過去形および過去分詞形 inundated)

1. To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.

   The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.

2. To overwhelm.

   The agency was inundated with phone calls.

   • 1852, The New Monthly Magazine, page 310:

     I don't know any quarter in England where you get such undeniable mutton—mutton that eats like mutton, instead of the nasty watery, stringy, turnipy stuff, neither mutton nor lamb, that other countries are inundated with.

   • 1972, Carol A. Nemeyer, Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., →ISBN, page 8:

     That books are pouring off the world’s presses at unprecedented rates is a fact often alluded to as a flood that is inundating libraries and the book trades.

同意語

• (to cover with water): deluge, flood, beflood
• (to overwhelm): deluge, flood, beflood

関連する語

• inundation
• inundator
• undulate

アナグラム

• antidune

Latin

動詞

inundāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of inundō