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Cataclysm :: Cataclysm (n.) An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

Overflow :: Overflow (n.) An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid.

Rice :: Rice (n.) A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed..

Flush :: Flush (n.) A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes..

Overflow :: Overflow (v. t.) To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm..

Inundation :: Inundation (n.) The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds..

Overbrim :: Overbrim (v. i.) To flow over the brim; to be so full as to overflow.

Backwater :: Backwater (n.) An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction..

Wash :: Wash (v. i.) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc..

Flood :: Flood (v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley..

Slop :: Slop (v. t.) To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish..

Submerge :: Submerge (v. t.) To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.

Submersion :: Submersion (n.) The act of submerging, or putting under water or other fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water, or of drowning..

Deluge :: Deluge (n.) A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.)..

Wash :: Wash (v. t.) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore..

Intervale :: Intervale (n.) A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7..

Inundant :: Inundant (a.) Overflowing.

Alluvion :: Alluvion (n.) An overflowing; an inundation; a flood.

Deluge :: Deluge (v. t.) To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.

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