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Definition of Inundations
1. inundation [n] - See also: inundation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inundations
Literary usage of Inundations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1876)
"... viewed in connexion with the lute Inundations in the Valley of the Garonne
and its Affluences, and Measures adopted in France to prevent such Floods. ..."
2. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1869)
"CAUSES OF THE Inundations OF THE NILE. THE ancients have invented many subtle
reasons for the Nile's great increase, as may be seen in Herodotus, ..."
3. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages by Benjamin Vincent, Joseph Haydn (1906)
"Bursting of the Bradfield reservoir (see Sheffield) ; Inundations at Cork, ...
Great inundations from the mountains in X. Italy ; the Po and other rivers ..."
4. On War by Carl von Clausewitz, James John Graham, Frederic Natusch Maude (1908)
"On the other hand, if the low land (as in Holland) is aided by inundations, the
resistance may become absolute, and defy every attack. ..."
5. Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1869)
"Inundations of 1868. The following statistics with regard to the disastrous ...
Many of the 50 persons who perished during the inundations lost their lives ..."
6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1870)
"Observation proves that the moon docs appear to exercise a complete controlling
influence over the inundations, so as to make them correspond, ..."
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