inundation

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I think this is just a question of providing context in a world of email inundation.

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the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"

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noun

the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"

noun

an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for inundation.

noun

the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"

noun

an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"

Example sentences

I think this is just a question of providing context in a world of email inundation.

Even TiVo is just a different aspect of the same issue of fighting inundation.

" Clearly the only choices are inundation and complete isolation.

There's a very pleasant inundation of news in various media that you don't get from sources like google news or newspaper sites.

The inundation of poor educational resources on it and the fact that many treat it as "C with Classes" rather than its own language doesn't help matters much.

But sometimes the inundation of popup balloons is a bit overkill, but that's only when using infested computers...

I suspect that the inundation of phone calls from constituents unable to search for Thanksgiving recipes utilizing their favorite search engine would make my vote awfully easy.

Agree with your comment, but an inundation of these type of comments on HN in the past seem like a very good indicator that the company will succeed to the tune of multi-billion$ valuations.

This democratical hurricane, inundation, earthquake, pestilence, call it which you will, at last aroused and alarmed all the world, and produced a combination unexampled, to prevent its further progress.

I'm happy if a troll or overtly offensive comment gets removed, but seeing reasonable comments that may not follow the "dictator's" ideologies removed or ridiculed annoys me more than an inundation of poor comments, even if I agree with the "dictator"!

" The decision is no longer theirs, it is the product of tremendous stigmatization, social pressure, and the nonstop inundation of students essentially from birth with platitudes about the necessity not just of education, but of the prestige that comes with an expensive education.