Synonyms for inundation

Most common

flood · overflow · deluge · cataclysm · drowning · overflowing

All synonyms

Noun

Definitions

1. n. 1

   The act of inundating; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds.

Related words

Word family

inundate

Forms

Plural

inundations → floods, deluges, overflows, cataclysms…

Example sentences

• flood The flood waters are predicted to engulf the town.
• overflow Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
• deluge Gabriel received a deluge of messages from his students.
• cataclysm Tom lives in constant fear of a cataclysm.
• drowning Ziri remembered almost drowning when he was a kid.
• overflowing There's a problem; the sewage tank is overflowing.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters

flood¹

6 letters

deluge²

7 letters

torrent²

8 letters

drowning², blizzard², overflow³, alluvion

9 letters

cataclysm⁴

11 letters

overflowing⁴

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (deluge² = 2 syllables).