Noun: inundation ,i-nun'dey-shun
- The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
"plains fertilized by annual inundations";
- flood, deluge, alluvion
- An overwhelming number or amount
"The office faced an inundation of calls after the announcement";
- flood, deluge, torrent
Derived forms: inundations
Type of: batch, bunch [informal], deal, flock, geological phenomenon, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile [informal], plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, scad [N. Amer, informal], sight, slew, spate, stack [informal], tidy sum, wad
Encyclopedia: Inundation, Gibraltar