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Noun flood has 6 senses
- flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion - the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
--1 is a kind of geological phenomenon
--1 has particulars: debacle; flash flood, flashflood
- flood, inundation, deluge, torrent - an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
--2 is a kind of batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
- flood, floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood - light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
--3 is a kind of light, light source
--3 is a part of photographic equipment
- flood, overflow, outpouring - a large flow
--4 is a kind of flow, stream
--4 has particulars: effusion
- flood, flowage - the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
--5 is a kind of filling
- flood - the inward flow of the tide; "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare
--6 is a kind of flow, flowing
--6 is a part of flood tide, rising tide
Verb flood has 4 senses
- deluge, flood, inundate, swamp - fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
--1 is one way to fill, fill up, make full
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something
- flood - cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
--2 is one way to cover, spread over
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- flood, oversupply, glut - supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
--3 is one way to supply, provide, render, furnish
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody with something
- flood - become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
--4 is one way to fill, fill up
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
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