inundate

Other forms of inundate

past tense

inundated·

present participle

inundating·

third person

inundates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inundate

What does inundate mean?

inundate means "fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inundate?

inundate has 3 syllables: in-un-date. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪnənˌdeɪt/.

What is another word for inundate?

Close synonyms include deluge, flood, swamp, deluge, submerge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is inundate a common word?

inundate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with inundate?

14 words rhyme with inundate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.