inundate
verb- [often passive]
to give or send somebody so many things that they cannot deal with them all 使不胜负荷；使应接不暇 - inundate something (formal)
to cover an area of land with a large amount of water 淹没；泛滥 Flood waters inundate the river plain each spring. 每年春天洪水都会淹没河滩。 Many sheep were lost in the floods and the city was inundated. 许多羊在洪水中丧生，这座城市被淹没了。
Word Originlate 16th cent.: (earlier (late Middle English) as inundation) from Latin inundat- ‘flooded’, from the verb inundare, from in- ‘into, upon’ + undare ‘to flow’ (from unda ‘a wave’).