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Freshet :: Freshet (a.) A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation.

Flowage :: Flowage (n.) An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows..

Overfull :: Overfull (a.) Too full; filled to overflowing; excessively full; surfeited.

Inundant :: Inundant (a.) Overflowing.

Flood :: Flood (v. i.) A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency..

Flood :: Flood (v. i.) A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation..

Exuberance :: Exuberance (n.) The state of being exuberant; an overflowing quantity; a copious or excessive production or supply; superabundance; richness; as, an exuberance of joy, of fancy, or of foliage..

Embankment :: Embankment (n.) A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc..

Landflood :: Landflood (n.) An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet.

Wash :: Wash (v. i.) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc..

Intervale :: Intervale (n.) A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7..

Overflowing :: Overflowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overflo.

Exuberant :: Exuberant (a.) Characterized by abundance or superabundance; plenteous; rich; overflowing; copious or excessive in production; as, exuberant goodness; an exuberant intellect; exuberant foliage..

Backwater :: Backwater (n.) An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction..

Inundate :: Inundate (v. t.) To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country was inundated with bills of credit..

Superfoetation :: Superflux (n.) Superabundance; superfluity; an overflowing.

Inundation :: Inundation (n.) An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx; as, an inundation of tourists..

Alluvion :: Alluvion (n.) An overflowing; an inundation; a flood.

Generous :: Generous (a.) Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table..

Exundation :: Exundation (n.) An overflow, or overflowing abundance..

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