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Inundation   /ˌɪnəndˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Inundation

noun
1.
The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land.  Synonyms: alluvion, deluge, flood.
2.
An overwhelming number or amount.  Synonyms: deluge, flood, torrent.  "A torrent of abuse"





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"Inundation" Quotes from Famous Books



... shoulders, pushed back his sleeves, and waded across the sandy bottoms of Dixie, hitting the high spots with staccato vehemence, as though Dixie had recently suffered from an inundation and he was in a hurry to get to dry land. Bondsman's moody baritone reached up and up with ...
— Jim Waring of Sonora-Town - Tang of Life • Knibbs, Henry Herbert
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... of that unknown design which was to take precedence of it; and he was most anxious to keep the door of communication open, that he might if possible discover what the former plan was. At the same time they could not resume their intermitted labours for the inundation without his finding it out; when by putting all hands to the work, the one existing outlet might in a single night be rendered impenetrable to any weight of water; for by filling the gang entirely up, their embankment ...
— The Princess and the Goblin • George MacDonald
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... is of course the war now going on. Lord Roberts seems to be successfully coping with the "inundation." ...
— Boer Politics • Yves Guyot
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... referred to them as "twin lakes"—an indiscretion which their owner, in her less generous moments, still casts up to me. But to-night the territory surrounding them presented a distinct appearance of inundation. I continued to gaze. I thought of last night's ceaseless vigil and to-day's long-drawn battle. My wife had borne the brunt of all, and I had grudged her a few tears! My heart ...
— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay
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... providence at length constrained both parties to join against a common enemy. A wise government followed; and the established church became, and now is, not only the brightest example, but our best and only sure bulwark, of toleration!—the true and indispensable bank against a new inundation of persecuting zeal—Esto perpetua! ...
— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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