Inundation Synonyms

An abundant, usually overwhelming flow or fall, as of a river or rain
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. alluvion
  2. cataclysm
  3. cataract
  4. deluge
  5. downpour
  6. flood
  7. freshet
  8. niagara
  9. overflow
  10. torrent
  11. spate
The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. flood
  2. deluge
  3. torrent
  4. tide
  5. alluvion

Words Related to Inundation

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. big
  2. flooding
  3. siltation
  4. salination
  5. overtop

Inundation Sentence Examples

  • On its left bank stretches the so-called inundation region, 1525 ft.

  • The lowlands of Tilsit are protected against inundation by dikes.

  • At high water most of these are united into one general inundation.

  • Since these streams had in no case originally easy access to the sea, we naturally find lakes on their course, and several of them terminate in tracts of more or less permanent inundation.

  • These works preclude all danger of future inundation.

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