Overflooding

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which something is overflooded.

    "The causes may be easily stated; there is more land, more ice, and less water—I mean in a fluid state; the overfloodings of the rivers produce the former, and the increase of cold the two latter; […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of overflood form-of, gerund, participle, present

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overflow

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"The causes may be easily stated; there is more land, more ice, and less water—I mean in a fluid state; the overfloodings of the rivers produce the former, and the increase of cold the two latter; […]"

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