Akademik

inundation
noun
1. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land (Freq. 1)
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plains fertilized by annual inundations

• Syn: ↑flood, ↑deluge, ↑alluvion
• Derivationally related forms: ↑deluge (for: ↑deluge), ↑inundate, ↑flood (for: ↑flood)
• Hypernyms: ↑geological phenomenon
• Hyponyms:
↑debacle, ↑flash flood, ↑flashflood, ↑Noah's flood, ↑Noachian deluge, ↑Noah and the Flood, ↑the Flood
2. an overwhelming number or amount
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a flood of requests

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a torrent of abuse

• Syn: ↑flood, ↑deluge, ↑torrent
• Derivationally related forms: ↑torrential (for: ↑torrent), ↑deluge (for: ↑deluge), ↑inundate, ↑flood (for: ↑flood)
• Hypernyms:
↑batch, ↑deal, ↑flock, ↑good deal, ↑great deal, ↑hatful, ↑heap, ↑lot, ↑mass, ↑mess, ↑mickle, ↑mint, ↑mountain, ↑muckle, ↑passel, ↑peck, ↑pile, ↑plenty, ↑pot, ↑quite a little, ↑raft, ↑sight, ↑slew, ↑spate, ↑stack, ↑tidy sum, ↑wad

Useful english dictionary. 2012.