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flood
/flʌd/
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What does flood mean?
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.
- (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
- The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
More meanings (10)
noun
- A floodlight.
- Menstrual discharge; menses.
- (obsolete) Water as opposed to land.
verb
- To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
- To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
proper noun
- The flood referred to in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
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He beat his foot upon the ground, and scowled with hate at the swirling smoke that was approaching like a phantom flood.
What though the mast be now blown overboard, The cable broke, the holding-anchor lost, And half our sailors swallowed in the flood?
More book examples (3)
This morning, moreover, he had gone out to see if the damage to the hay by the flood was considerable or not.
No one ever could wipe from his heart the flood of holy adoration that had welled with the coming of his Angel.
The lists of court architects, extending over the period from Seti to Darius, throw a flood of light over the other records.