Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
INUNDATE
inundate, deluge, submerge
(verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water
deluge, flood, inundate, swamp
(verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; “the basement was inundated after the storm”; “The images flooded his mind”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
inundate (third-person singular simple present inundates, present participle inundating, simple past and past participle inundated)
To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
To overwhelm.
Synonyms
• (to cover with water): deluge, flood, beflood
• (to overwhelm): deluge, flood, beflood
Anagrams
• antidune
Source: Wiktionary
In*un"date, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inundated; p. pr. & vb. n. Inundating.] Etym: [L. inundatus, p. p. of inundare to inundate; pref. in- in + undare to rise in waves, to overflow, fr. unda a wave. See Undulate.]
1. To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town.
2. To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country was inundated with bills of credit.
Syn.
– To overflow; deluge; flood; overwhelm; submerge; drown.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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