Inundate vs Overflow - What's the difference?
inundate | overflow | Synonyms |
To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
To overwhelm.
The spillage resultant from overflow; excess.
Outlet for escape of excess material.
(computing) The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.
To flow over the brim of (a container).
To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
To cause an overflow. (rfex)
To flow over the edge of a container.
To exceed limits or capacity.
# (computing, ambitransitive) To exceed the available numeric range.
To be superabundant; to abound.
Inundate is a synonym of overflow.
As verbs the difference between inundate and overflow
is that inundate is to cover with large amounts of water; to flood while overflow is to flow over the brim of (a container).As a noun overflow is
the spillage resultant from overflow; excess.inundate
English
Verb
(inundat)- The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.
- The agency was inundated with phone calls.
Synonyms
* (to cover with water) deluge, flood, beflood * (to overwhelm) deluge, flood, befloodoverflow
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* overflow holeVerb
(en verb)- The river overflowed the levee.
- The flash flood overflowed most of the parkland and some homes.
- So when they were working that evening at the pumps, there was on this head no small gamesomeness slily going on among them, as they stood with their feet continually overflowed by the rippling clear water
- The waters overflowed into the Ninth Ward.
- The hospital ER was overflowing with flu cases.
- Calculating 255+1 will overflow an eight-bit byte.
- (Rogers)