- flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion - the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
--1 is a kind of geological phenomenon
--1 has particulars: debacle; flash flood, flashfloodDerived forms: verb inundate1, verb inundate2 - flood, inundation, deluge, torrent - an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
--2 is a kind of batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
Derived form: verb inundate1