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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The act of inundating; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds..
Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation.
There is an inundation of tourists in summer, but in winter the town is almost deserted.
But he did not long abuse my patience, for the objects before him had now put him by all his, and, coming out with that formidable machine of his, he lets the fury loose, and pointing it directly to the pouting-lipt mouth, that bid him sweet defiance in dumb-shew, squeezes in the head, and, driving with refreshed rage, breaks in, and plugs up the whole passage of that soft pleasure-conduit, where he makes all shake again, and put, once more, all within me into such an uproar, as nothing could still but a fresh inundation from the very engine of those flames, as well as from all the springs with which nature floats that reservoir of joy, when risen to its flood-mark.
Use inundation when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Inundation means The act of inundating; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds..
Common synonyms include flood, deluge.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation.
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