flood
About 12.61 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
- noun A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
a flood of complaints
- noun The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
- noun A floodlight.
- noun Menstrual discharge; menses.
- noun Water as opposed to land.
- verb To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
People flooded into the streets in protest.
- verb To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
The floor was flooded with beer.
Similar words
inundation deluge swamp inundate torrent outpouring photoflood overflow floodlight rising
Often followed by
of control and the plain in waters plains tide
Word family
Flood Floods flooded flooder flooders flooding floods
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