Flood

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  • noun. An overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry.
  • noun. A flood tide.
  • noun. A large amount or number, especially when moving from one place to another: synonym: flow.
  • noun. A floodlight, specifically a unit that produces a beam of intense light.
  • noun. In the Bible, the covering of the earth with water that occurred during the time of Noah.
  • intransitive verb. To cover or submerge with water; inundate.
  • intransitive verb. To move into or fill in large numbers or amounts.
  • intransitive verb. To overwhelm in large numbers.
  • intransitive verb. To put too much fuel into the carburetor of (an engine), resulting in unsuccessful ignition.
  • intransitive verb. To become inundated or submerged.
  • intransitive verb. To pour forth; overflow.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A large, broad body of water; main tide.
  • noun. The main ocean; main sea.
  • To overflow; inundate; deluge, literally or figuratively: as, to flood a building or a mine in order to extinguish a fire; to flood a meadow.
  • To be poured out abundantly; rise in a flood.
  • To have an excessive menstrual discharge; also, to bleed profusely after parturition; suffer post-partum hemorrhage; flow, as a lying-in woman.
  • noun. Flowing water; a stream, especially a great stream; a river.
  • noun. A great body of water; the sea.
  • noun. A great body of moving water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually covered with water; a deluge; an inundation.
  • noun. The inflow of the tide; the semidiurnal rise or swell of water in the ocean: opposed to ebb.
  • noun. A great body or stream of any fluid or fluidlike substance; anything resembling such a stream: as, a flood of lava; a flood of light.
  • noun. Hence A great quantity; an overflowing abundance; a superabundance.
  • noun. The menstrual discharge when excessive.
  • See splash, 4.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
  • noun. The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb
  • noun. A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; ; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance
  • noun. Menstrual disharge; menses.
  • noun. , the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising.
  • noun. a fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood.
  • noun. a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate.
  • noun. the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark.
  • noun. the rising tide; -- opposed to ebb tide.
  • noun. the deluge in the days of Noah.
  • transitive verb. To overflow; to inundate; to deluge.
  • transitive verb. To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; ; to fill to excess or to its full capacity.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
  • noun. A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
  • noun. A floodlight
  • verb. To overflow.
  • verb. To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
  • verb. To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than cannot easily be dealt with.
  • verb. To paste numerous lines of text to a chat system in order to disrupt the conversation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a large flow
  • noun. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
  • verb. supply with an excess of
  • noun. the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
  • verb. fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
  • verb. become filled to overflowing
  • verb. cover with liquid, usually water
  • Word Usage
    "The latin flood is going to increase in the long run not controlled or reduced."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    ebb  
    cross-reference
    Form
    flooded  flooding  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    batch  deal  fill  fill up  filling  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Blood  Bud  Judd  Rudd  blood  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form
    flooded  flooding  floods