Difference between Inundate and Flood

What is the difference between Inundate and Flood?

Inundate as a verb is to cover with large amounts of water; to flood. while Flood as a verb is to overflow.

Inundate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cover with large amounts of water; to flood. To overwhelm.

Flood

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To overflow.To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.To paste numerous lines of text to a chat system in order to disrupt the conversation.

Example sentence: Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

We hope you now know whether to use Inundate or Flood in your sentence.

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