inundation

Nouns

  • (n) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
    • plains fertilized by annual inundations
    flood, alluvion, deluge,
  • (n) an overwhelming number or amount
    • a flood of requests
    • a torrent of abuse
    deluge, flood, torrent,

Synonyms

flood alluvion deluge torrent

Words of close approximity