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Flood   /fləd/   Listen
Flood

noun
1.
The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land.  Synonyms: alluvion, deluge, inundation.
2.
An overwhelming number or amount.  Synonyms: deluge, inundation, torrent.  "A torrent of abuse"
3.
Light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography.  Synonyms: flood lamp, floodlight, photoflood.
4.
A large flow.  Synonyms: outpouring, overflow.
5.
The act of flooding; filling to overflowing.  Synonym: flowage.
6.
The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide).  Synonyms: flood tide, rising tide.
verb
(past & past part. flooded; pres. part. flooding)
1.
Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid.  Synonyms: deluge, inundate, swamp.  "The images flooded his mind"
2.
Cover with liquid, usually water.  "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
3.
Supply with an excess of.  Synonyms: glut, oversupply.  "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
4.
Become filled to overflowing.



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"Flood" Quotes from Famous Books



... they parted; and Matilda went home, thinking that in this instance at least the welcoming of strangers had paid well. For this was a pleasant new acquaintance, she was sure. She mounted the stairs with happy feet to her room; and there found Maria in a flood of tears. Maria had stayed at home from ...
— What She Could • Susan Warner
... it was yet night; and rising hastily, I put on my night-clothes. One of my women was indiscreet enough to hold me round the waist, and exclaim aloud, shedding a flood of tears, that she should never see me more. M. de Cosse, pushing her away, said to me: "If I were not a person thoroughly devoted to your service, this woman has said enough to bring you into trouble. But," continued ...
— Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Complete • Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre
... the girl fitted a cumbersome brass key and then for a long minute she stood there breathing the forenoon air that eddied in currents of fresh warmth. The June sunlight came, too, in a golden flood and the soft radiance of it played upon her ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck
... last, "that our blazing windows will be visible a great way off. There is nothing so pleasant and encouraging to a solitary traveller, on a stormy night, as a flood of firelight seen amid the gloom. These ruddy window panes cannot fail to cheer the hearts of all that look at them. Are they not warm with the beacon-fire which we have kindled ...
— The Blithedale Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... HATCHES. Flood-gates set in a river to stop the current of water. Also, coverings of grating, or close hatches to seal the holds.—To lie under hatches, stowed in the hold. Terms used figuratively for being in distress ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth


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