floodverb
uk/flʌd/us/flʌd/flood verb (COVER WITH WATER)
B1 [ I or T ] to cause to fill or become covered with water, especially in a way that causes problems:
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- When the river flooded, the footbridge was swept away.
- The river burst its banks and flooded the surrounding fields.
- He left the bath running and flooded the bathroom.
- The severe cold caused a water main to burst and flood the street.
- This coastal area floods every year, so the local people build their houses on stilts.
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Floods, tides & currents
- backwash
- change
- come
- current
- ebb
- eddy
- flooded
- floodgate
- flooding
- floodplain
- high water mark
- inundate
- low-water mark
- neap tide
- overfall
- tidal
- undertow
- water
- waterlogged
- whirlpool
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flood verb (ARRIVE)
B2 [ I usually + adv/prep, T ] to fill or enter a place in large numbers or amounts:
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- Wearing scarves and hats which proclaimed their allegiance, the football fans flooded into the bar.
- There are few jobs for the peasants who have flooded into the cities from the poverty-stricken countryside in search of work.
- Offers of help have been flooding in since news of the disaster first emerged.
- Messages of support have been flooding in since she announced her decision to stand for president.
- Memories of childhood flooded back as she looked through the photographs.
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Filling and completing
- brick
- brick up sth
- brim
- crowd
- crowd sb/sth out
- fill
- jam
- occupancy
- occupy
- overcrowded
- overran
- overrun
- plug
- round
- suffuse
- supersaturated
- tank
- tank up
- top sb up
- top sth up
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Phrasal verb(s)
floodnoun
uk/flʌd/us/flʌd/flood noun (WATER)
B1 [ C or U ] a large amount of water covering an area that is usually dry:
crying a lot:
(in the Bible) a flood sent by God that covered the whole earth as a punishment
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- The recent flood has swept away the footbridge.
- You should check your policy to see if you're covered for flood damage.
- After the flood, nothing remained of the village.
- The floods left thousands of people destitute.
- People living in low-lying areas were evacuated because of the floods.
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Floods, tides & currents
- backwash
- change
- come
- current
- ebb
- eddy
- flooded
- floodgate
- flooding
- floodplain
- high water mark
- inundate
- low-water mark
- neap tide
- overfall
- tidal
- undertow
- water
- waterlogged
- whirlpool
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flood noun (LARGE AMOUNT)
C2 [ C ] a large amount or number of something:
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Masses and large amounts of things
- accumulation
- an embarrassment of riches idiom
- any number of things idiom
- backlog
- battery
- boatload
- bolus
- clot
- deluge
- fund
- lashing
- lather
- outpouring
- panoply
- plethora
- predominance
- preponderance
- sheet
- shower
- thousand
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