Synonyms for inundation
in·un·da·tion

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1. flood, inundation, deluge, alluvionnoun

   the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land

   "plains fertilized by annual inundations"

   Synonyms:
   alluvial sediment, waterspout, pelter, soaker, deluge, floodlight, cloudburst, rising tide, overflow, alluvial deposit, flood, downpour, alluvion, alluvium, flowage, flood tide, flood lamp, photoflood, outpouring, torrent

2. flood, inundation, deluge, torrentnoun

   an overwhelming number or amount

   "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"

   Synonyms:
   waterspout, pelter, soaker, deluge, floodlight, cloudburst, rising tide, overflow, violent stream, flood, downpour, alluvion, flowage, flood tide, flood lamp, photoflood, outpouring, torrent

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1. inundationnoun

   Synonyms:
   flood, deluge, overflow, cataclysm

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1. List of paraphrases for "inundation":

   flooding, flood

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1. Andrew Teem:

   Right now we're experiencing total inundation of areas that previously were not vulnerable to normal tides, we're getting something called King Tides -- extremely high tides. These were non-existent when I was a boy.

2. Dave Porter:

   It's not one of these snow-melt events, it's the inundation of rain over the last 24 hours.

3. Saadi:

   A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation.

4. Saadi:

   A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

5. Scott Morrison:

   This will be heartbreaking to these communities that have been experiencing years of drought only to see that turn into a torrential inundation.