(adj) covered with water, Syn. flooded, awash, overflowing, inundated, Example:the main deck was afloat (or awash); the monsoon left the whole place awash; a flooded bathroom; inundated farmlands; an overflowing tub
(v) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid, See Also: flood in, Syn. flood, inundate, swamp, Example:the basement was inundated after the storm; The images flooded his mind
(n) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land, Syn. inundation, alluvion, deluge, Example:plains fertilized by annual inundations
v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inundated p. pr. & vb. n. Inundating. ] [ L. inundatus, p. p. of inundare to inundate; pref. in- in + undare to rise in waves, to overflow, fr. unda a wave. See Undulate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
1. To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country was inundated with bills of credit.
[弥漫 / 瀰漫, mí mànㄇㄧˊ ㄇㄢˋ] to pervade; to fill the air; diffuse; everywhere present; about to inundate (water); permeated by (smoke); filled with (dust); to saturate (the air with fog, smoke etc)#9088
[おしよせる, oshiyoseru] (v1, vi) to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.); to rush for (the door); to inundate; to overwhelm; to push aside