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flood

Nouns

• (n) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
  • plains fertilized by annual inundations
  inundation, alluvion, deluge,
• (n) an overwhelming number or amount
  • a flood of requests
  • a torrent of abuse
  deluge, inundation, torrent,
• (n) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography flood lamp, floodlight, photoflood,
• (n) a large flow overflow, outpouring,
• (n) the act of flooding; filling to overflowing flowage,
• (n) 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
  rising tide, flood tide,

Verbs

• (v) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
  • the basement was inundated after the storm
  • The images flooded his mind
  deluge, inundate, swamp,
• (v) cover with liquid, usually water
  • The swollen river flooded the village
  • The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes
• (v) supply with an excess of
  • flood the market with tennis shoes
  • Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient
  oversupply, glut,
• (v) become filled to overflowing
  • Our basement flooded during the heavy rains

Synonyms

inundation alluvion deluge inundate swamp torrent flood lamp floodlight photoflood oversupply glut overflow outpouring flowage rising tide flood tide

Antonyms

ebbtide

See also

flood in flood out deluge overwhelm

Words of close approximity