1. A technique used in behaviour therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them
   - implosion therapy

1. Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
   "The images flooded his mind"
   - deluge, inundate, swamp 
2. Cover with liquid, usually water
   "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes" 
3. Supply with an excess of
   "flood the market with tennis shoes"
   - oversupply, glut 
4. Become filled to overflowing
   "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"

Derived forms: floodings

See also: flood in, flood out

Type of: behavior modification [US], behavior therapy [US], behaviour therapy [Brit, Cdn], cover, fill, fill up, furnish, make full, provide, render, spread over, supply

Encyclopedia: Flood

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