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Inundate vs Immerse - What's the difference?

inundate | immerse |

As verbs the difference between inundate and immerse

is that inundate is to cover with large amounts of water; to flood while immerse is to put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk.

As an adjective immerse is

immersed; buried; sunk.

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

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l)

    immerse

    English

    Verb

    (immers)
  • To put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk.
    • Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water.
  • To involve deeply
    • The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies.
  • (mathematics)
  • * 2002 , Kari Jormakka, Flying Dutchmen: Motion in Architecture (page 40)
    • Thus, in mathematical terms a Klein bottle cannot be "embedded" but only "immersed " in three dimensions as an embedding has no self-intersections but an immersion may have them.

    Synonyms

    * submerge

    Derived terms

    * immersion * immersive

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Immersed; buried; sunk.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • After a long enquiry of things immerse in matter, I interpose some object which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of sounds.
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