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# inundation

«inundation» in Mova's school dictionary: **usually dry** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an inundation, inundations) — formal

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) A flood; when water covers land that is usually dry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundation/#m1)

2) A very large amount of things arriving at once: an inundation of letters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography (floods, the Nile's yearly inundation in ancient Egypt) and formal writing. Phrases: an inundation of, the annual inundation.

### examples

- The yearly inundation of the Nile made the soil rich. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundation/#x1)
- Coastal towns face inundation as sea levels rise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundation/#x2)
- The inundation destroyed many farms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundation/#x3)
- There was an inundation of emails after the announcement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundation/#x4)
- The levee protected the town from inundation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundation/#x5)
- Ancient Egyptians had a season called Inundation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundation/#x6)
- It is probable that these sea-monsters are the poetical figures which represent the demons of hunger and famine, necessarily accompanying a general inundation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundation/#x7)

### note

Formal; everyday word: flood. Verb: inundate (often passive: we were inundated with entries).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «inundation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inundation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.