inundates

Floods with excess

Inundates means to flood or overwhelm with abundance.

Water inundates low-lying areas during storms.

More often the word describes being swamped with too much of something: The office was inundated with complaints.

The sense is of quantity beyond capacity to handle—calls, emails, requests, applications all inundate when they arrive in unmanageable volume.

flooding

overwhelms

Conquers by superior force

swamps · drowns · overflows · floods · washes over · surges · breaches · overruns · saturates · drenches

overwhelming

bombards

Attacks with heavy fire

overloads · barrages · floods · avalanche · deluge · saturates · besieges · pelts · blitzes · onslaughts

information

emails

Digital written messages

complaints · applications · inquiries · calls · paperwork · data · feedback · submissions · proposals · orders

Opposites
quantity/volume of flow

inundatestrickles

Flows in drops

drips · dribbles · seeps · oozes · sprinkles

saturation/dryness

inundatesdrains

Pipes removing wastewater

dries · dries out · desiccates · empties · depletes

OVERWHELMING vs. DEPRIVING (figurative)

inundatesstarves

Dies from hunger

deprives · rations · denies · underwhelms · neglects

Family

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