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deluge
Something that overwhelms as if by a great flood:
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  1. Something that overwhelms as if by a great flood:
  2. A heavy rainfall
  3. In the Bible, the great flood that occurred in the time of Noah.
torrent
A very heavy fall of rain
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  1. A very heavy fall of rain
  2. A turbulent, swift-flowing stream.
  3. A swift, violent stream, esp. of water
tide
The regular rise and fall in the surface level of the Earth's oceans, seas, and bays caused by the gravitational attraction of the Moon and to a lesser extent of the Sun. The maximum high tides (or spring tides) occur when the Moon and Sun are directly aligned with Earth, so that their gravitational pull on Earth's waters is along the same line and is reinforced. The lowest high tides (or neap tides) occur when the Moon and Sun are at right angles to each other, so that their gravitational pull on Earth's waters originates from two different directions and is mitigated. Tides vary greatly by region and are influenced by sea-floor topography, storms, and water currents.
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  1. The regular rise and fall in the surface level of the Earth's oceans, seas, and bays caused by the gravitational attraction of the Moon and to a lesser extent of the Sun. The maximum high tides (or spring tides) occur when the Moon and Sun are directly aligned with Earth, so that their gravitational pull on Earth's waters is along the same line and is reinforced. The lowest high tides (or neap tides) occur when the Moon and Sun are at right angles to each other, so that their gravitational pull on Earth's waters originates from two different directions and is mitigated. Tides vary greatly by region and are influenced by sea-floor topography, storms, and water currents.
  2. The periodic variation in the surface level of the oceans and of bays, gulfs, inlets, and estuaries, caused by gravitational attraction of the moon and sun.
  3. Flood tide.
alluvion
The creation of land caused by the gradual depositing, either by artificial or natural forces, of earth, sand, gravel, and similar materials along the shoreline of a river or ocean by running water. The new land becomes the property of the owner of the property to which it is attached, provided the accumulation is so gradual that it cannot be visibly perceived from moment to moment. See also accretion, reliction, alluvium, and avulsion. The creation of land caused by the gradual depositing, either by artificial or natural forces, of earth, sand, gravel, and similar materials along the shoreline of a river or ocean by running water. The new land becomes the property of the owner of the property to which it is attached, provided the accumulation is so gradual that it cannot be visibly perceived from moment to moment. See also accretion, reliction, alluvium, and avulsion.
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  1. The creation of land caused by the gradual depositing, either by artificial or natural forces, of earth, sand, gravel, and similar materials along the shoreline of a river or ocean by running water. The new land becomes the property of the owner of the property to which it is attached, provided the accumulation is so gradual that it cannot be visibly perceived from moment to moment. See also accretion, reliction, alluvium, and avulsion. The creation of land caused by the gradual depositing, either by artificial or natural forces, of earth, sand, gravel, and similar materials along the shoreline of a river or ocean by running water. The new land becomes the property of the owner of the property to which it is attached, provided the accumulation is so gradual that it cannot be visibly perceived from moment to moment. See also accretion, reliction, alluvium, and avulsion.
  2. (Law) A gradual addition to land along a river, lake, etc., as through the deposit of sedimentary material
  3. An overflowing; flood
cataclysm
A violent upheaval that causes great destruction or brings about a fundamental change.
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  1. A violent upheaval that causes great destruction or brings about a fundamental change.
  2. A violent and sudden change in the earth's crust.
  3. A devastating flood.
cataract
An eye disease in which the crystalline lens or its capsule becomes opaque, causing partial or total blindness
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  1. An eye disease in which the crystalline lens or its capsule becomes opaque, causing partial or total blindness
  2. A waterfall in which a large volume of water flows over a steep precipice.
  3. Any strong flood or rush of water; deluge
deluge
A heavy rainfall
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  1. A heavy rainfall
  2. Something that overwhelms as if by a great flood:
  3. In the Bible, the great flood that occurred in the time of Noah.
downpour
A heavy rain
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  1. A heavy rain
  2. A heavy rain
  3. A heavy fall of rain.
flood
A large body of water, as a sea or broad river
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  1. A large body of water, as a sea or broad river
  2. A temporary rise of the water level, as in a river or lake or along a seacoast, resulting in its spilling over and out of its natural or artificial confines onto land that is normally dry. Floods are usually caused by excessive runoff from precipitation or snowmelt, or by coastal storm surges or other tidal phenomena. &diamf3; Floods are sometimes described according to their statistical occurrence. A fifty-year flood is a flood having a magnitude that is reached in a particular location on average once every fifty years. In any given year there is a two percent statistical chance of the occurrence of a fifty-year flood and a one percent chance of a hundred-year flood .
  3. A flood tide.
freshet
A stream or rush of fresh water flowing into the sea
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  1. A stream or rush of fresh water flowing into the sea
  2. A flood resulting from heavy rain or a spring thaw.
  3. A sudden overflowing of a stream because of melting snow or heavy rain
niagara
A torrent or flood:
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  1. A torrent or flood:
overflow
An outlet for overflowing liquids
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  1. An outlet for overflowing liquids
  2. (Computers) A condition in which a calculation produces a unit of data too large to be stored in the location allotted to it.
  3. An overflowing or being overflowed
torrent
A flood or rush of words, mail, etc.
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  1. A flood or rush of words, mail, etc.
  2. A very heavy fall of rain
  3. A turbulent, swift-flowing stream.
spate
A sudden heavy fall of rain.
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  1. A sudden heavy fall of rain.
  2. A freshet resulting from a downpour of rain or melting of snow.
  3. (Chiefly Brit.) A flash flood
Find another word for inundation. In this page you can discover 16 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for inundation, like: deluge, torrent, tide, flood, alluvion, cataclysm, cataract, deluge, downpour, flood and freshet.

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

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

  • In the 7th century, perhaps owing to a terrible inundation,' its exiles founded, at a distance of 4 m.

  • If a dam be absolutely necessary, care must be taken so to build it as to secure the fields on both sides from possible inundation; and it should be constructed substantially, for the cost of repairing accidents to a weak dam is very serious.

  • Soon after his death the city fell into the hands of Lysimachus, who introduced fresh Greek colonists from Lebedus and Colophon and, it is said, by means of an artificial inundation compelled those who still dwelt in the plain by the temple to migrate to the city on the hills, which he surrounded by a solid wall.

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