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单词 inundate
释义
inundate
verb[T]
uk
/ˈɪn.ʌn.deɪt/us
/ˈɪn.ʌn.deɪt/

inundateverb[T](TOO MUCH)

to give someone so muchworkor so many things that they cannotdealwith it all:
使应接不暇
We have been inundatedwithrequestsforhelp.求助申请多得让我们应接不暇。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Causing difficulties for oneself or others
  • ask questions ofsomeone/somethingidiom
  • be a tall orderidiom
  • be asking for troubleidiom
  • beyourown worst enemyidiom
  • catch
  • catchsomeoneout
  • dig
  • make heavy weather ofsomethingidiom
  • overburden
  • pitchforksomeoneintosomething
  • plunge
  • plunge(someone/something)intosomething
  • shoot
  • subjectsomeone/somethingtosomething
  • suicidal
  • swamp
  • tall
  • toughness
  • trouble
  • wrong-foot
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inundateverb[T](FLOOD)

formal
tofloodanareawithwater:
（洪水）淹没
If thedambreaksit will inundatelargepartsof thetown.如果水坝决口，这个城镇的大部分地区都将被淹没。
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Floods, tides & currents
  • current
  • ebb
  • eddy
  • flash flood
  • flooded
  • floodplain
  • gyre
  • high tide
  • high water mark
  • inundation
  • longshore drift
  • low-water mark
  • tidal
  • tidally
  • tide table
  • tidemark
  • turbulence
  • turbulent
  • water
  • waterline
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Enclosing, surrounding and immersing

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inundation
(Definition ofinundatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

inundate| American Dictionary

inundate
verb[T]
us
/ˈɪn·ʌnˌdeɪt/
tobringto aplaceorpersontoo much of something, so that it cannot bedealtwith:
Afterappearingon TV they were inundated withtelephonecallsfor aweek.
We were inundated withcomplaintswhen the show had to becanceled.
To inundate is also toflood(anarea) withwater:
Floods inundatedvariousIndiancommunities.
(Definition ofinundatefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinundate

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The area of land inundated increases with time, as the sea level increases.
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Busy practitioners are inundated with clinical guidelines (26).
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Sites with much lower land values may have to be inundated as the cost of protection may exceed the land value.
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A secondary dispersal of the propagules is not likely, since the sites were not inundated during the discussed time.
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In the field, we observed unpredictable flooding after heavy rain events that inundated stream margins, and submerged all herbs in plots adjacent to streams.
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If coastline is inundated, new land becomes beachfront.
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Rather, both ' air-conditioned ' politics and ' veranda ' politics are advancing simultaneously, inundating a previously bureaucratised political sphere.
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188 ronmental stimuli, feelings of being flooded and inundated, and inability to focus attention to relevant details.
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At this seemingly stable point, however, all four voices suddenly break out in semiquavers; this motion recurs in bars 34-35, completely inundating the texture of the whole passage.
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Rivers and patches of seasonally inundated f orest o ccur both inside and outside o f t he grove, a nd to varying extent along i ts edges.
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They accounted for secondary vegetation and showed that marshes and wet (seasonally inundated) forest did not affect elephant distribution, at least in the wet season when they conducted their study.
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The savanna to the west is inundated up to a meter deep in some places during the growing season, and this prohibits the cultivation of staple food crops.
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Points may be missed, if the primary source is not ready at hand, while at other times one may feel oneself inundated with extended passages from related sources.
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In the mainland, the fraction of land inundated would be small (except possibly for a small coastal country) and so would have no effect on land prices in general.
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Therefore, among these five species, these results suggested that seeds germinating in dunes may be less salinity-tolerant than seeds of species growing in habitats periodically inundated with sea water.
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