inflood

The act or process of flooding or flowing in; an inflow or influx.

We are prepared to substantiate our assertion, that two-thirds of the shoal that have of late rushed into our professional main, have been attracted by commissions and offices; have been called in fact to qualify themselves by standing for appointments, without cherishing a hope of maintaining themselves by practice, or even designing to make the attempt. Else why this inflood at a time when courts of quarter sessions are all but abolished, so far as the bar are profited thereby, bail practice annihilated, motions of course made by attorneys'-clerks at the Judges' Chambers, instead of by junior barristers at Westminster, […]

The Spectator went far in working the change desired by [Jonathan] Swift, a stop having been put to the inflood of Latin words.

Of a river, water, etc.: to flood or flow into (a place).

But O—Alas! 'twas in thy native town, / Franklin, they strove to crush the hero down; / Revil'd and stamp'd him with the stain of blood, / That he in battle should the foe inflood!

An officer (Capt. Baker) has been despatched to Gharra, with a view to forward the arrangements for a canal between that place and the Indus; […] This is to have the effect of inflooding the country below Shahapore, and returning the blessing of fresh water to the lands which formerly enjoyed it, and which are in the possession of a faithful ally.

To flood or flow in; to inflow.

[T]hough remote / From the main ocean many a mile / Inflooded past cape, creek, and kyle, / The sea-loch flanked by precipice walls, / With ever-lessening murmur crawls, / Till 'neath the Pass he lies subdued / By the o'er-aweing solitude; […]

Joy, from the light inflooding upon eye and mind, / And heart and soul, calm bliss without care's harsh alloy, […]