Flood Meaning and Definition


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Flood meaning

Word: Flood

How to pronounce: flʌd

Noun

Definitions:

1. An overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confines, especially over what is normally dry land.

Example sentences: "A flood barrier"

2. An outpouring of tears or emotion.

Example sentences: "Rose burst into such a flood of tears and sobs as I had never seen"

3. Short for floodlight

Example sentences: "The whitewashed walls glowed eerily in the light refracted from the flood lamps through the rain."

Verb

Definitions:

1. Cover or submerge (a place or area) with water.

Example sentences: "The dam burst, flooding a small town"

2. Arrive in overwhelming amounts or quantities.

Example sentences: "Sunlight flooded in at the windows"


Synonyms:

high flood

floodwater

flood periods

freshet

flood flows

inundate

overfill

torrent

tide

rising tide

flood land

floodplain

bottomland

flood plain

inundation

water flood

floodings

flowage

submergence

submersion

deluge

river

outpouring

spill

swamp

overflow

spillage

glut


Derivations:

flooding

flooded


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Flood in Other Languages...

Spanish: Inundación

German: Überschwemmung

French: Inondation

Italian: Inondazione

Turkish: Sel


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