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Meaning of flood



Definitions of flood

1. [n] - an overwhelming number or amount

2. [n] - the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land

3. [n] - the inward flow of the tide

4. [n] - light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam

5. [n] - the act of flooding

6. [n] - a large flow

7. [v] - supply with an excess of

8. [v] - become filled to overflowing

9. [v] - cover with liquid, usually water

 

Quotes - Example use of the word flood

1. filling to overflowing

2. used in photography

3. a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune -Shakespeare

4. plains fertilized by annual inundations1

5. a flood of requests

6. a torrent of abuse

7. The swollen river flooded the village

8. The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes

9. Our basement flooded during the heavy rains

10. flood the market with tennis shoes

11. Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient





flood Synonyms

glut

oversupply

torrent

deluge

inundation

alluvion

deluge

inundation

photoflood

flood lamp

floodlight

outpouring

overflow

 

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