inundation

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noun

1. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land (Freq. 1)
- 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
- a flood of requests
- 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

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  flood, deluge, torrent, alluvion