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English noun: inundation | |||
| 1. | inundation (phenomenon) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | ||
| Samples | Plains fertilized by annual inundations. | ||
| Synonyms | alluvion, deluge, flood | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | geological phenomenon | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | debacle, flash flood, flashflood, Noachian deluge, Noah and the Flood, Noah's flood, the Flood | ||
| 2. | inundation (quantity) an overwhelming number or amount | ||
| Samples | A flood of requests. A torrent of abuse. | ||
| Synonyms | deluge, flood, torrent | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | 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 | ||
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