overflooding

English

Noun

overflooding (plural overfloodings)

  1. The act by which something is overflooded.
    • 1821 January 10–22, John Dundas Cochrane, “To the President and Secretary of the Royal Society”, in Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary, from the Frontiers of China to the Frozen Sea and Kamtchatka, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] Charles Knight, […], published 1824, →OCLC, Appendix, page 334:
      The causes may be easily stated; there is more land, more ice, and less water—I mean in a fluid state; the overfloodings of the rivers produce the former, and the increase of cold the two latter; […]
    • 1845, Richard Ford, “Granada”, in A Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain, and Readers at Home. […], part I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 385, column 1:
      The beauty and fashion congregate on this Alameda, which is constantly injured by overfloodings.
    • 2013 April, Paul Argentini, chapter 15, in A Matter of Love in Da Bronx: A Novel: A 1950’s Diary, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Sunbury Press, →ISBN, page 178:
      How now I can understand the inconceivable before where worlds have been gained or lost in no more than a kiss, if it be a kiss such as this. I feel the overfloodings of our worlds, the unleashings of trapped winds and the release of stormclouded sunshine.

Verb

overflooding

  1. present participle and gerund of overflood
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