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# flooding

noun

«flooding» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

65 uses in 44 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 65 of 65. By the class of the article: city 22, country 11, agglomeration 7, university 2. Most often with: «cause», «rainfall», «area», «high», «city».

### Examples

- The most recent hurricane, Gustav in 2008, caused widespread flooding, knocked over trees and power lines leading to power outages, and damaged structures. — [Alexandria, Louisiana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria,_Louisiana), sentence 29 («wiki:Alexandria,\_Louisiana:29»)
- The old part of the city is built on the plateau—a rocky outcrop created by the valleys of the Anguienne and Charente at an altitude of 102 m—while on the river bank the area subject to flooding is 27 m high. — [Angoulême](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angoulême), sentence 55 («wiki:Angoulême:55»)
- In September 1998, Bangladesh saw the most severe flooding in modern history, after which two-thirds of the country went underwater, along with a death toll of 1,000. — [Bangladesh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh), sentence 128 («wiki:Bangladesh:128»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«Alexandria, Louisiana»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria,_Louisiana), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Angoulême»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angoulême), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Bangladesh»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.