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flood
Found in thesaurus: pile, flock, peck, sight, good deal, whole lot, stack, stream, make full, provide
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flood
v.
inundate; brim over, overflow; submerge, engulf; gush, surge; overwhelm
n.
inundation, deluge; torrent; great stream of water; overflow
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Flood
A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land which is usually dry. The European Union (EU) Floods Directive defines a flood as a covering by water of land not normally covered by water. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide.
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flood
Noun
1. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
(synonym) inundation, deluge, alluvion
(hypernym) geological phenomenon
(hyponym) debacle
2. an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
(synonym) inundation, deluge, torrent
(hypernym) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
(derivation) oversupply, glut
3. light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
(synonym) floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood
(hypernym) light, light source
(part-holonym) photographic equipment
4. a large flow
(synonym) overflow, outpouring
(hypernym) flow, stream
(hyponym) effusion
5. the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
(synonym) flowage
(hypernym) filling
6. the inward flow of the tide; "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare
(hypernym) flow, flowing
(part-holonym) flood tide, rising tide
Verb
1. fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
(synonym) deluge, inundate, swamp
(hypernym) fill, fill up, make full
(see-also) flood in
(derivation) flowage
2. cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
(hypernym) cover, spread over
(hyponym) flow
(see-also) overwhelm, deluge, flood out
(derivation) inundation, deluge, alluvion
3. supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
(synonym) oversupply, glut
(hypernym) supply, provide, render, furnish
(derivation) inundation, deluge, torrent
4. become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
(hypernym) fill, fill up
(derivation) flowage
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flood
v.
zaplavit; rozvodnit se; být zaplaven; nahrnout se; zahltit
n.
povodeň, záplava
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flood
Czas.
wylewać (się); zalewać; napływać (masowo)
Rzecz.
powódź; lawina
