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Imbrue vs Inundate - What's the difference?

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Imbrue is a related term of inundate.


As verbs the difference between imbrue and inundate

is that imbrue is to stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc) while inundate is to cover with large amounts of water; to flood.

imbrue

English

Alternative forms

* embrue

Verb

  • To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.).
  • * 1837 : Edward Smallwood, Manuella, the Executioner’s Daughter?;?A Story of Madrid , volume II, pages 275–276] ([[w:Bentley's Miscellany, Richard Bentley])
  • Armed with the weapon which was destined to destroy himself, Imnaz sprang down the ladder,?—?found the door, and, emerging from the abode of crime, sought a more secure resting place, leaving his hostess to discover, with return of day, in whose blood were imbrued the hands of an hospiticide.

    Anagrams

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    inundate

    English

    Verb

    (inundat)
  • To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
  • The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.
  • To overwhelm.
  • The agency was inundated with phone calls.

    Synonyms

    * (to cover with water) deluge, flood, beflood * (to overwhelm) deluge, flood, beflood