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flood in English
- flood⇄adj. floodable.
- flood⇄expr. the Flood, the waters that covered the earth in the time of Noah; the Deluge (in the Bible, Genesis 7).
Ex. Your ancient but ignoble blood has crept through scoundrels ever since the Flood (Alexander Pope). - flood⇄flood, noun, verb.
- flood⇄noun flooder.
- flood⇄noun 1. a great flow of water over what is usually dry land; inundation.
Ex. The heavy rains caused a serious flood near the river.
2. a large amount of water, ocean, sea, lake, or river.
Ex. She will to her peaceful woods return, and - flood⇄v.i. 1. to pour out or stream like a flood.
2. (Figurative.) to flow like a flood; overflow.
Ex. Sunlight flooded into the room.
3. to become covered or filled with water.
Ex. During the thunderstorm, our cellar flooded.
- flood⇄v.t. 1. to flow over; cover with a great flow of water.
Ex. The river flooded our fields.
(SYN) inundate.
2. to fill much fuller than usual.
3. to put much water on.
Ex. A wave flooded the holes I had dug in the sand. <