Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-UN-DA'TION, n. [L. inundatio.]

1. An overflow of water or other fluid; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over low grounds. Holland has frequently suffered immensely by inundations of the sea. The Delta in Egypt is annually enriched by the inundation of the Nile.
2. An overspreading of any kind; an overflowing or superfluous abundance.