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flooding

 
Adjective flooding has 1 sense
  1. flooding, in flood, overflowing, swollen - overfull with water; "swollen rivers and creeks"
    Antonym: low (indirect, via high)
Noun flooding has 1 sense
  1. implosion therapy, flooding - a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them
    --1 is a kind of behavior therapy, behavior modification
    Derived form: verb flood1
Verb flood has 4 senses
  1. 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
    Derived forms: noun flood5, noun flood1, noun flooding1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s something with something
  2. 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
    Derived form: noun flood1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  3. 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
    Derived form: noun flood2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody with something
  4. flood - become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
    --4 is one way to
    fill, fill up
    Derived forms: noun flood5, noun flood1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
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