Historical clue formulations

• Smother, as with sauce — 2024-08-11
• ___ one's sorrows — 2021-03-02
• Be overwhelmed — 2015-02-25
• Be covered with, with "in" — 2009-06-28
• Inundate — 2008-10-12
• Go under — 2004-02-15
• Audibly overwhelm, with "out" — 2002-04-22
• Soak — 2001-07-11
• Go under for the third time — 1999-03-02