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Inundation :: Inundation (n.) The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds..

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

Bund :: Bund (n.) An embankment against inundation.

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

Waterflood :: Waterflood (n.) A flood of water; an inundation.

Overflow :: Overflow (n.) A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation..

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

Levee :: Levee (n.) An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river..

Spate :: Spate (n.) A river flood; an overflow or inundation.

Destitution :: Destitution (n.) The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution..

Dike :: Dike (n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.

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

Alluvion :: Alluvion (n.) Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium.

Deluge :: Deluge (n.) A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.)..

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..

Avulsion :: Avulsion (n.) The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and joined to the estate of another. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner..

Floodage :: Floodage (n.) Inundation.

Flooding :: Flooding (n.) The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.

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