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noun

Inundation n.

The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds. "With inundation wide the deluge reigns, Drowns the deep valleys, and o'erspreads the plains."

An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx; as, an inundation of tourists. "To stop the inundation of her tears."

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Etymology of 'Inundation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... titles; and amidst them emerged the ancient religion. The Arabs have a fable that the Great Pyramid was built by antediluvian kings, and alone, of all the works of men, bore the weight of the Flood. Such as this was the fate of the Papacy. It had been buried under the great inundation; but its deep foundations had remained unshaken; and, when the waters abated, it appeared alone amidst the ruins of a world which had passed away. The republic of Holland was gone, and the empire of Germany, and the Great Council of Venice, and ...

— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... denizens of the wilderness, he should find fewer field sports and less attention paid to that class of amusements than in the oldest counties of England. As Harry said, the weather and business were probably chief causes of the evil, while the inundation of French fashions and ideas had ...

— The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 • Various

... advantage of the army that at last he gave the order, and on the 13th of April the work began, and that evening the water rushed out from Lake Aboukir through two cuts. Others were opened the next day. The rush of water quickly widened these, and soon the inundation spread over a large tract ...

— At Aboukir and Acre - A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt • George Alfred Henty

... the Pyramids of Gizeh, a distance of ten miles, over a substantial macadamized avenue. This broad highway, elevated eight or ten feet above the adjoining lands in order to protect it from the flood of water during the time of inundation, was bordered for seven miles with large shade trees, and was in perfect condition. On one side of the avenue an electric tramway extended from the bridge at Cairo to the Mena ...

— A Trip to the Orient - The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise • Robert Urie Jacob

... contribution of that colony to the movement of American expansion. When lands of these tribes were obtained after Sullivan's expedition in the Revolution (in which New England soldiers played a prominent part), it was by the New England inundation into this interior that they were colonized. And it was under conditions like those prevailing in the later years of the expansion of settlements in New England itself, that this settlement of interior and western New ...

— The Frontier in American History • Frederick Jackson Turner

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