inundated
Drowned in excess
Inundated means flooded or overwhelmed.
Water inundates low-lying areas during storms.
More often the word describes being swamped with an excessive quantity of something: We were inundated with applications, inundated by emails.
The suggestion is of being unable to keep up with the volume.
Below water's surface
- floodedCovered with water
- delugedOverwhelmed by abundance
- swampedOverwhelmed beyond capacity
- engulfedCompletely swallowed up
overflowed · waterlogged · drowned · saturated · awash · torrential · monsoon · deluge
Overwhelmed beyond capacity
- buriedPlaced beneath earth
- overloadedBurdened past capacity
- bombardedAttacked with heavy fire
- barragedAttacked in rapid succession
besieged · snowed under · drowning · avalanche · onslaught · backlog · demands · obligations
Attacked in rapid succession
- saturatedThoroughly soaked through
- oversaturatedExceeding maximum concentration
- news cycleDuration stories stay prominent
- feedsGives nourishment to
notifications · advertising · spam · viral · trending · algorithm · doom-scrolling · information overload
submerged
Below water's surface
engulfed · overflowed · waterlogged · drowned · saturated · awash · torrential · monsoon · deluge · floodwaters
swamped
Overwhelmed beyond capacity
- buriedPlaced beneath earth
- overloadedBurdened past capacity
- bombardedAttacked with heavy fire
barraged · besieged · snowed under · drowning · avalanche · onslaught · backlog · demands · obligations · deadlines
barraged
Attacked in rapid succession
- saturatedThoroughly soaked through
- oversaturatedExceeding maximum concentration
- news cycleDuration stories stay prominent
feeds · notifications · advertising · spam · viral · trending · algorithm · doom-scrolling · information overload · bombardment
- crowdedcrowded, jam-packed, packed like sardines, crammed, jammed
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
- fullnessfull, empty, half-full, filled, half-empty
- moisturemoisture, humidity, dampness, wetness, wet
- overloadoverload, overwhelmed, excess, surplus, maxed out
- overwhelmedstressed, overwhelmed, stressed out, burnt out, burned out