inflood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈinˌflʌd/
Forms: form: infloods
form: inflooding
form: inflooded
form: inflooded
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁én
From in- (prefix meaning ‘in, into; towards’) + flood (“overflow of water from a lake or other body of water; flowing in of the tide; to overflow; to cover or partly fill as if by a flood”). Compare Saterland Frisian Íenfloud (“influence”), West Frisian ynfloed (“influence”), Dutch invloed (“influence”), Middle Low German invlôt (“influence”), German Einfluss (“influence”), Danish indflydelse (“influence”), Swedish inflytande (“influence”), Norwegian innflytelse (“influence”).
Senses: examples: text: But O—Alas! 'twas in thy native town, / Franklin, they strove to crush the hero down; / Revil'd and stamp'd him with the stain of blood, / That he in battle should the foe inflood!
ref: 1827, [Richard Emmons], “Canto VII. The Cruise of the Chesapeake.”, in The Fredoniad: Or, Independence Preserved. An Epick Poem on the Late War of 1812. […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: […] [F]or the author, by William Emmons, →OCLC, page 222, lines 696–699:
text: An officer (Capt. Baker) has been despatched to Gharra, with a view to forward the arrangements for a canal between that place and the Indus; […] This is to have the effect of inflooding the country below Shahapore, and returning the blessing of fresh water to the lands which formerly enjoyed it, and which are in the possession of a faithful ally.
ref: 1844 September 12, “Scinde”, in The Indian Mail, a Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australasia; […], volume I, number 17, London: W[illia]m H[oughton] Allen and Co., […], →OCLC, page 520, column 2:
text: Because of the divine abundance inflooding our souls, there's an important truth for us to remember: To enable us to carry out His will, God is always ready to give us more than enough of Himself.
ref: 2003, Dwight Edwards, “His River Runs Through”, in Releasing the Rivers Within: The Exhilaration of Utter Dependence on God, Colorado Springs, Colo.: WaterBrook Press, Random House, →ISBN, page 19:
text: In an unpublished letter addressed to [Russell] Cheney on November 20, 1924, [Francis Otto] Matthiessen associates the affective excess inflooding their relationship with the contradictory temporal logics that his specter straddled: […]
ref: 2018, Donald E. Pease, “F. O. Matthiessen: Heir to (American) Jouissance”, in Joel Goldbach, James A. Godley, editors, Inheritance in Psychoanalysis, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 205:
glosses: Of a river, water, etc.: to flood or flow into (a place).
examples: text: [T]hough remote / From the main ocean many a mile / Inflooded past cape, creek, and kyle, / The sea-loch flanked by precipice walls, / With ever-lessening murmur crawls, / Till 'neath the Pass he lies subdued / By the o'er-aweing solitude; […]
ref: 1877 January, [John Campbell] Shairp, “The Clearing of the Glens”, in Alexander Mackenzie, editor, The Celtic Magazine: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad, volume II, number XV, Inverness, Inverness-shire: A. & W. Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, canto IV (The Home by Lochburn), stanza IV, page 104:
text: Joy, from the light inflooding upon eye and mind, / And heart and soul, calm bliss without care's harsh alloy, […]
ref: 1879, Troubadour [pseudonym], Zarah: A Romaunt of Modern Life, London: Samuel Tinsley & Co., […], →OCLC, page 53:
text: […] Evelyn Underhill said there is a place in every person's mind that is this gateway—the gateway through which things inflood rather than outgo.
ref: a. 1961, Ernest Holmes, compiled by George P. Bendall, The Ernest Holmes Papers […], New York, N.Y.: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, published 2014, →ISBN:
glosses: To flood or flow in; to inflow.
Derived terms: word: inflooded
word: inflooding