| 单词 | flood |
| 释义 | flood (once / 136 pages) 1nv 2nv 3n A flood is an enormous amount of water. If the street is full of water, it's flooded. Too much of anything can also be called a flood. Whenever it rains and rains and rains, there's the danger of a flood, a type of disaster where water is out of control. Because a flood is so powerful, people use the word when overwhelmed by other things. A top college graduate could be flooded with job offers — that's a good kind of flood. People can also be flooded with emotion. Words with similar meanings are deluge and overflow. Too much — or just a lot — of anything can seem like a flood. WORD FAMILYflood: flooded, flooding, floods+/flooding: floodings USAGE EXAMPLESHe still sometimes implies he might let Syrian migrants flood Europe again to gain diplomatic leverage, as if the threat doesn’t also hurt Turkey’s security. Wall Street Journal(Jan 03, 2017) The slowdown, he said, is being driven not by a pullback in demand but rather a flood of new apartments. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Although flood warnings were posted for many areas, Brazzell said it appeared flooding would be “minor,” with few impacts to structures. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land Syn|Hypo|Hyper alluvion, deluge, inundation debacle flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer flash flood, flashflooda sudden local flood of great volume and short duration Noachian deluge, Noah and the Flood, Noah's flood, the Flood(Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings floodheada wall of water rushing ahead of the flood geological phenomenon a natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth 2n the act of flooding; filling to overflowing Syn|Hyper flowage filling the act of filling something 3n 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" -Shakespeare Syn|Ant|Hyper flood tide, rising tide ebbtide the tide while water is flowing out tide the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon 4n a large flow Syn|Hypo|Hyper outpouring, overflow effusion flow under pressure flow, stream the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression 5v cover with liquid, usually water The swollen river flooded the village The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes Hypo|Hyper flow cover or swamp with water deluge, inundate, submergefill or cover completely, usually with water drench, swampdrench or submerge or be drenched or submerged lap, lave, washwash or flow against cover, spread over form a cover over 6v fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid The images flooded his mind Syn|Hyper deluge, inundate, swamp fill, fill up, make full make full, also in a metaphorical sense 7v become filled to overflowing 2Our basement flooded during the heavy rains Hyper fill, fill up become full 1n an overwhelming number or amount a flood of requests Syn|Hyper deluge, inundation, torrent batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent 2v supply with an excess of 3flood the market with tennis shoes Syn|Hyper glut, oversupply furnish, provide, render, supply give something useful or necessary to n light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography Syn|Hyper flood lamp, floodlight, photoflood light, light source any device serving as a source of illumination |
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