Flooded Meaning and Definition

Word: Flooded

How to pronounce: ˈflʌdɪd

Noun

Definitions:

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

Example sentences: "The villagers had been cut off by floods and landslides"

2. An outpouring of tears.

Example sentences: "She burst into floods of tears"

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 (an area) with water in a flood.

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

2. Arrive in overwhelming amounts or quantities.

Example sentences: "Sunlight flooded in at the windows"

3. (of a woman) experience a uterine haemorrhage.

Synonyms:

overflowing

Derivations:

flooding

flood

Keep in Mind

Images related to Flooded

Flooded in Other Languages...

Spanish: Inundar

German: Lichtdurchflutet

French: Inonder

Italian: Inondare

Turkish: Basmak