| 单词 | flooded |
| 释义 | flooded (once / 946 pages) adj Something flooded is overflowing with water. A flooded river bursts over its banks, covering the surrounding land. If your basement is flooded, it's full of water, and anything you keep down there is floating around in it. Entire towns can be flooded as well, particularly coastal cities during torrential storms like hurricanes. You can also describe someone's eyes brimming with tears as flooded. The word comes from flood, which has an Old English root, flōd, "tide, deluge, sea, or wave." WORD FAMILYflood: flooded, flooding, floods+/flooding: floodings USAGE EXAMPLESThousands of Penn State students flooded the postcard downtown in State College, Pa., that night to protest the decision. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) The precinct was also one of the high-crime areas that the department flooded with its newest officers. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) Meanwhile, a car carrying two tourists near Alice Springs was washed off a road into a flooded creek. BBC(Dec 28, 2016) adj covered with water a flooded bathroom Syn afloat, awash, inundated, overflowing full containing as much or as many as is possible or normal |
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