Crossword-Solution: INUNDATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Inundation | n. | The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds. |
| Inundation | n. | An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx; as, an inundation of tourists. |
We have 28 clues for the answer “INUNDATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Niagara __ | 9 answers |
| redundance | 14 answers |
| freshet | 16 answers |
| cataract | 17 answers |
| Spate | 19 answers |
| Downpour | 19 answers |
| intrusion | 19 answers |
| inflow | 20 answers |
| OUTPOURING of water | 22 answers |
| influx | 22 answers |
| Pour | 24 answers |
| flooding | 27 answers |
| cataclysm | 29 answers |
| invasion | 33 answers |
| Incur-sion | 34 answers |
| Outpouring | 38 answers |
| infringement | 39 answers |
| Deluge | 43 answers |
| overproduction | 47 answers |
| overkill | 48 answers |
| tide | 49 answers |
| Overflow | 54 answers |
| Torrent | 57 answers |
| flood | 62 answers |
| Gush | 66 answers |
| Stream | 71 answers |
| Outburst | 73 answers |
| Residue | 75 answers |
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Sentences with INUNDATION (5)
Every pore inside the boys’ cheeks became a spouting fountain; they could scarcely bail out the cellars under their tongues fast enough to prevent an inundation; little overflowings down their throats occurred in spite of all they could do, and sudden retchings followed every time.
Their three heads had been close together during this brief discourse, and it had been as much as they could do to hear one another, even then: so tremendous was the noise of the living ocean, in its irruption into the Fortress, and its inundation of the courts and passages and staircases.
They closed up the inundation with a few words--having used it, evidently, as a mere ice-breaker and acquaintanceship-breeder--then they dropped into business.
This extraordinary weather had wrought no little damage in the neighbourhood, causing the Guadalquivir, which, during the rainy season, is a rapid and furious stream, to overflow its banks and to threaten an inundation.
And while we have a continual inundation of popular songs that are trashy and voice the tawdriest human impulses, yet it is a tribute to the good elements in humanity that the wholesome, uplifting sentiments in Carrie Jacobs-Bond's songs continue to hold their popularity.
Quotes with INUNDATION (3)
Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.
This was the sort of ebullience and élan I prayed for when I felt the desire to write. I used to sit down and wait for this to happen. But it never did happen- not this way. It happened afterwards, sometimes when I had left the machine and gone for a walk. Yes, suddenly it would come on, like an attack, pell-mell, from every direction, a veritable inundation, an avalanche- and there I was, helpless, miles away from the typewriter, not a piece of paper in my pocket.
In a world where seasons of planting harvests and inundation ruled life and death, it was imperative to bring the gods into daily life to help things along. The more a king invested in festivals of cyclical renewal, the more prosperity the gods bestowed. But if the gods were ignored, bad floods would result, and that meant meager planting and poor harvest, which led in turn to drought, pestilence, disease and death.
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Appears in: WSJ.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2017).