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being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds. With inundation wide the deluge reigns, Drowns the deep valleys, and o'erspreads the plains. Wilkie.

An overflowing; an inundation; a flood. Lyell.

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 o…

An embankment against inundation. [India] S. Wells Williams.

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.).

tute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.

An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides. Longfellow.

a foundation; to uproot. A piece of ground disrooted from its situation by subterraneous inundations. Goldsmith.

rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation. A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. Milton.

Inundation. [R.] Carlyle.

The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.

A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.

An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. Clarendon.

An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river. [U. S. ]

To temper ill; to disorder; as, to mistemper one's head. Warner. This inundation of mistempered humor. Shak.

A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation. Bacon.

A river flood; an overflow or inundation. Burns. Gareth in a showerful spring Stared at the spate. Tennyson.

A flood of water; an inundation.