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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.)..

Dike :: Dike (n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.

Landflood :: Landflood (n.) An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet.

Overflow :: Overflow (n.) A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation..

Bund :: Bund (n.) An embankment against inundation.

Flooding :: Flooding (n.) The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.

Floodage :: Floodage (n.) Inundation.

Alluvion :: Alluvion (n.) Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium.

Destitution :: Destitution (n.) The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution..

Freshet :: Freshet (a.) A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation.

Avulsion :: Avulsion (n.) The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and joined to the estate of another. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner..

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

Flood :: Flood (v. i.) A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation..

Inundation :: Inundation (n.) An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx; as, an inundation of tourists..

Levee :: Levee (n.) An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river..

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..

Waterflood :: Waterflood (n.) A flood of water; an inundation.

Spate :: Spate (n.) A river flood; an overflow or inundation.

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