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Inundation

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floodnounAn overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
delugenounA great flood or rain.

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delugenounA great flood or rain.
floodnounAn overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
floodingnounAn act of flooding; a flood or gush.
submergencenounThe act of submerging or the state of being submerged; submersion.
landslidenounA vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority.
submersionnounThe act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; immersion
dumpingnounThe disposal of something no longer needed, or of no value.
proliferationnoun(uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
floodagenounflooding; inundation
landfloodnoun(archaic) flood; inundation
exundationnoun(archaic) An overflow, flooding or overflowing abundance.
overfloodnounA flood; an excess or superabundance.
overswellverb(ambitransitive) To swell or rise above (something, especially the rim of a container, the sides of something hollow, etc.).
overfluxnounan overflow; an overflowing or exuberance
overflownounExcess, superabundance
outburst floodnounA flood caused by a lake or reservoir overflowing.
overswellingnounExcessive swelling.
overtoppingnounAn instance of water going over the top of a barrier such as a sea wall or levee.
overspillnounThat which spills over.
floodwatersnounThe waters of a flood

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