Inflood

Quick meaning: Inflood is a noun meaning The act or process of flooding or flowing in; an inflow or influx.

Meaning

The act or process of flooding or flowing in; an inflow or influx.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) Of a river, water, etc.: to flood or flow into (a place).
2. (intransitive) To flood or flow in; to inflow.

Example Sentences

The Spectator went far in working the change desired by [Jonathan] Swift, a stop having been put to the inflood of Latin words.

But during the last few years men have been raised up to the rescue of religious liberty, and are stemming back the inflood of papal intolerance.

[T]hey were forced to defend their privileges in the name of the Federalist party against an inflood of democracy which came with the diffusion of political education.

Chess clambered to his feet, feeling power surge along nerves and muscles, electrifying and painful with his fury. Magic welled out from him, pushing back the inflood of thought and leaving him blissfully alone in his head once more.

Word Forms

• infloods
• inflooding
• inflooded

Synonyms for inflood

Depending on context, synonyms include inflooding, influence, tide.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inflow, influx, instreaming, infiltration, instream, infil.

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