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overflooding

overflooding noun: the act by which something is overflooded. Also the present participle and gerund of overflood.

Noun

overflooding (plural overfloodings)

  1. The act by which something is overflooded.
    • 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; […]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...
    • The beauty and fashion congregate on this Alameda, which is constantly injured by overfloodings.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

Also used as

overflooding is also the present participle and gerund of overflood.

Forms of overflooding

pluraloverfloodings

Questions about overflooding

What does overflooding mean?
Overflooding means the act by which something is overflooded.
What part of speech is overflooding?
Overflooding is a noun.
What is the plural of overflooding?
The plural of overflooding is overfloodings.

Words near overflooding in the dictionary

  1. overflogged
  2. overflogging
  3. overflogs
  4. overflood
  5. overflooded
  6. overflooding
  7. overfloodings
  8. overfloods
  9. overflorid
  10. overfloridness
  11. overflour

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