covered with water; " the main deck was afloat ( or awash)"; " the monsoon left the whole place awash"; " a flooded bathroom"; " inundated farmlands"; " an overflowing tub"

rendered powerless especially by an excessive amount or profusion of something; " a desk flooded with applications"; " felt inundated with work"; " too much overcome to notice"; " a man engulfed by fear"; " swamped by work"

of Inundate

Overflowed.

Here the route is crossed and intercepted by numerous rivers; and lakes of all sizes, with tracts of inundated marsh, succeed one another continually. – Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid

The final sites of deposition, the fissures, were inundated occasionally by floods alone, or because of changes in location of the channel of the stream at the time of flooding. – Two New Pelycosaurs from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma by Richard C. Fox

As they travelled chiefly by land, along the banks of Lake Erie, they had to pass through numerous swamps, over large inundated plains, and through thick forests. – History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians by George Mogridge

It was raining so fast that, if it had continued pouring with the same violence for a quarter of an hour, the country would have been inundated – The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

The sun on one side, and the Queen of Night on the other, inundated the projectile with light. – The Moon-Voyage by Jules Verne

All the furniture and decorations of my house were broken and shattered to pieces; all the rooms were inundated and the store- rooms were full of sand, carried there by the waters of the lake. – Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière

Under foot it was slushy with mud, water and ice, the consistency varying from a somewhat solid crust to puddles that half inundated Hamilton's boots and quite overflowed Father Beret's moccasins. – Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson

I at once hired a donkey and made a personal investigation, with the result that I can report as a fact that the entire desert east and south of Biskra is inundated to a depth of from seven to ten feet and that the water gives no sign of going down. – The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Arthur Train Robert Williams Wood

He was found about six o'clock this morning by the cook, and you can imagine that we have been simply inundated with police and officials ever since. – The Monk of Hambleton by Armstrong Livingston

All the gradations are fast disappearing; the palisades of good manners, dignity, and respect, are vanishing with the hedges; the country is positively inundated with slang and vulgarity- all from the ill- breeding, presumption, and self- satisfaction of new people." – Home Again by George MacDonald

In vain Raymond humbled himself to degradation: in vain he had- the more culpable weakness to take up the cross himself against his own subjects; Simon de Montford obtained these wretched provinces, purchased by torrents of blood, with which he had inundated them. – The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude François Daunou

They did so, with the result that in an astonishingly short time my diocese was inundated with a flood of Froebelism which absolutely swept me away. – The Associate Hermits by Frank R. Stockton

The road emerged in oases of mud from long, inundated spaces. – The Emigrant Trail by Geraldine Bonner

He was completely inundated with a bright red liquid which dripped and trickled down on the floor in numerous gory puddles. – Sube Cane by Edward Bellamy Partridge

They are not yet satisfied with the rivers of human blood with which in times past they inundated the fields of Italy, of the Low Countries, of our continent of America, and only a few years ago, of Cuba itself. – Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White

The land is either burnt up or inundated so they do not plant, but live only by the chase. – Through Five Republics on Horseback by G. Whitfield Ray

The nest was built in a bush on the edge of an inundated field, but in our garden. – The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Allan O. Hume

We sought them in the shallow marshes which are inundated by water during flood- time. – Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Lucien Biart