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flood (flud)

noun

  1. an overflowing of water on an area normally dry; inundation; deluge
  2. the flowing in of water from the sea as the tide rises
  3. a great flow or outpouring a flood of words
  4. Informal floodlight
  5. Archaic
    1. water, as opposed to land
    2. a large body of water, as a sea or broad river

Etymology: ME flode < OE flod, akin to Ger flut: for IE base see flow

transitive verb

  1. to cover or fill with or as with a flood; overflow; inundate rain flooded the valley; music flooded the room
  2. to put much or too much water, fuel, etc. on or in to flood a carburetor

intransitive verb

  1. to rise, flow, or gush out in or as in a flood
  2. to become flooded
flood Idioms

the Flood

Bible the great flood in Noah's time: Gen. 7

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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