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.
INUNDATED
awash, afloat(p), flooded, inundated, overflowing
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
inundated
flooded
Verb
inundated
simple past tense and past participle of inundate
Source: Wiktionary
INUNDATE
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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