Meaning of INUNDATION
| Pronunciation: | | `inund'eyshun
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- [n] the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"1
- [n] an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
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| | Synonyms: | | alluvion, deluge, deluge, flood, flood, torrent |
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| | See Also: | | batch, deal, debacle, flash flood, flashflood, flock, geological phenomenon, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`un*da"tion\, n. [L. inundatio: cf. F.
inondation.]
1. The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an
overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over
grounds.
With inundation wide the deluge reigns, Drowns the
deep valleys, and o'erspreads the plains. --Wilkie.
2. An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous
abundance; a flood; a great influx; as, an inundation of
tourists.
To stop the inundation of her tears. --Shak.
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| | Definition: | | A condition in which water temporarily or permanently covers a land surface. |
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| | Related Terms: | | affusion, alluvion, alluvium, aspergation, aspersion, avalanche, baptism, bath, bathing, bedewing, burial, cataclysm, cataract, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing, dip, dipping, dousing, drowning, duck, ducking, dunking, embarras de richesses, engulfment, enough, exaggeration, excess, extravagance, extravagancy, flood, flooding, hosing, hosing down, humidification, immergence, immersion, irrigation, landslide, laving, lavishness, moistening, money to burn, more than enough, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness, overcopiousness, overdose, overflow, overflowing, overgrowth, overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overpass, overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion, overrun, overrunning, overspreading, oversufficiency, oversupply, plenty, plethora, pour, prodigality, redundancy, rinsing, sinking, souse, sousing, sparging, spate, spattering, spill, spillage, splashing, splattering, spraying, sprinkling, submergence, submersion, superabundance, superflux, superiority, surplus, swashing, the Deluge, the Flood, torrent, washout, watering, wetting, whelming |
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