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Inundation

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    One of the three seasons of Ancient Egypt.
Noun
  1. 1
    The act of inundating; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land wordnet
  3. 3
    The state of being inundated; flooding. countable, uncountable

    "Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation."

  4. 4
    an overwhelming number or amount wordnet
  5. 5
    An overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx. countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "There is an inundation of tourists in summer, but in winter the town is almost deserted."

Etymology

From Old French inundacion (“flood”) (French inondation), from Latin inundatio (“flood”), form of inundō (“I flood, overflow”) (English inundate). By surface analysis, inundat(e) + -ion.

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