overflooding

noun

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; […]”

   “The beauty and fashion congregate on this Alameda, which is constantly injured by overfloodings.”

   “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

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of overflood