inundation

Noun
  1. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land (synset 111475008)
    "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
    is a type of: geological phenomenon - a natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth
    subtypes:
    • debacle - flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer
    • flash flood, flashflood - a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration
    • noachian deluge, noah and the flood, noah's flood, the flood - (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings
    same as: alluvion, deluge, flood
  2. An overwhelming number or amount (synset 113797906)
    "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
    is a type of: 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 - (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
    same as: deluge, flood, torrent

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