inundate
There would be more severe droughts and flooding, plus inundation of beaches, islands and marshes.
Low-lying Louisiana stands to suffer some inundation if climate change projections come true.
The neighborhood was heavily damaged in the tsunami of 1946 and leveled in the 1960 inundation.
We had a sudden inundation of beetles.
Mass inundations by visitors, such as the 200,000 who flock to the air show, require special preparation.

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Floods, tides & currents
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deluge
eddy
flash flood
flood
floodplain
gyre
high tide
high water mark
longshore drift
low tide
low-water mark
overwhelm
tidal
tidally
tide table
turbulence
turbulent
waterline
whelm

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Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
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Examples of inundation

inundation
The increased risk of inundation from storms would require even higher sea walls for protection.
These probably functioned to regulate the rate and timing of seasonal inundation and subsequent drainage of the lagoon and adjoining fields.
In the floodplain forests the inundation phase is followed by a short dry season, when the rainfalls start late.
Why do slatey-grey snakes show so little modification of their spatial ecology in the face of this dramatic seasonal inundation?
On the east side of the cobble embankment, a thick bed of black clay indicates that the area was subjected to periods of inundation.
For species that do not tolerate complete inundation of several months, fast height growth should be considered as an adaptation for escaping total flooding.
The point of maximum inundation may occur to the side, as well as directly on the line, of reflective symmetry.
The country consequently does not lose beachfront property through inundation but rather interior land.
Other countries, with lower land values, may well come to a different conclusion, that allows for a mixture of inundation and protection over time.
Using the best available contour maps, we measure the amount of land at risk of inundation in each site in each decade.
The depreciation would reduce the economic losses to the structure caused by inundation.
However, in other islands or coastal regions, sea level rise might threaten a substantial fraction of the developable land of a country to inundation.
Successional processes in mangrove forests were thought to be driven primarily by physical factors associated with tidal inundation.
In the present study, the observed spatial heterogeneity in forest palm density probably predated the inundation events that created forest islands.
This approach reduces the present value of protection costs considerably and protects a valuable resource from inundation.
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