Inundation

Noun

 * 1) The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds.
 * 2) (metaphorical) An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx; as, an inundation of tourists.

Related terms

 * inundate

Thesaurus
affusion, alluvion, alluvium, aspergation, aspersion, avalanche, baptism, bath, bathing, bedewing, burial, cataclysm, cataract, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing, dip, dipping, dousing, drowning, duck, ducking, dunking, embarras de richesses, engulfment, enough, exaggeration, excess, extravagance, extravagancy, flood, flooding, hosing, hosing down, humidification, immergence, immersion, irrigation, landslide, laving, lavishness, moistening, money to burn, more than enough, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness, overcopiousness, overdose, overflow, overflowing, overgrowth, overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overpass, overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion, overrun, overrunning, overspreading, oversufficiency, oversupply, plenty, plethora, pour, prodigality, redundancy, rinsing, sinking, souse, sousing, sparging, spate, spattering, spill, spillage, splashing, splattering, spraying, sprinkling, submergence, submersion, superabundance, superflux, superiority, surplus, swashing, the Deluge, the Flood, torrent, washout, watering, wetting, whelming

Etymology
inundatio:, form of inundo: (English inundate:).

Translations

 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese: 洪水 (hóngshuǐ)
 * Dutch:
 * Georgian: დატბორვა
 * Italian:, ,
 * Korean: 홍수
 * Korean: 홍수


 * Latin:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: (1) повінь, повідь, затоплення
 * Ukrainian: (1) повінь, повідь, затоплення
 * Ukrainian: (1) повінь, повідь, затоплення