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Verb: flood flúd- Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
"The images flooded his mind"
- deluge, inundate, swamp - Cover with liquid, usually water
"The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes" - Supply with an excess of
"flood the market with tennis shoes"
- oversupply, glut - Become filled to overflowing
"Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
Noun: flood flúd- The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- inundation, deluge, alluvion - An overwhelming number or amount
"a flood of requests"
- inundation, deluge, torrent - Light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
- floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood - A large flow
- overflow, outpouring - The act of flooding; filling to overflowing
- flowage - The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
"a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune"
- flood tide, rising tide
Derived forms: floods, flooding, flooded See also: flood in, flood out, flooding Type of: batch, cover, deal, fill, fill up, filling, flock, flow, furnish, geological phenomenon, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, light, light source, lot, make full, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mint, mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile, plenty, pot, provide, quite a little, raft, render, sight, slew, spate, spread over, stack, stream, supply, tide, tidy sum, wad Part of: photographic equipment Encyclopedia: Flood |