inundation

inundation
    n 1: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto
         normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual
         inundations" [syn: {flood}, {inundation}, {deluge},
         {alluvion}]
    2: an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a
       torrent of abuse" [syn: {flood}, {inundation}, {deluge},
       {torrent}]
    

Inundation \In`un*da"tion\, n. [L. inundatio: cf. F.
   inondation.]
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   1. The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an
      overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over
      grounds.
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            With inundation wide the deluge reigns,
            Drowns the deep valleys, and o'erspreads the plains.
                                                  --Wilkie.
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   2. An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous
      abundance; a flood; a great influx; as, an inundation of
      tourists.
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            To stop the inundation of her tears.  --Shak.
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100 Moby Thesaurus words for "inundation":
      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