inundation

Fertile fields, numerous villas and flourishing villages were overwhelmed by the inundation.

At one inundation that occurred about sixty years ago, eighty thousand persons were drowned.

The above is what has been said on the subject of winds and rains, the rising of rivers, and the inundation of plains.

Neither as yet was visible the threatening mass of the inundation.

He therefore bent all the energies of his mind and all the resources of his kingdom to arrest these fresh waves of inundation.