| flood | | |
| n. (phenomenon) | 1. alluvion, deluge, flood, inundation | the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land.; "plains fertilized by annual inundations" |
| ~ geological phenomenon | a natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth. |
| ~ debacle | flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer. |
| ~ flash flood, flashflood | a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration. |
| ~ noachian deluge, noah's flood, noah and the flood, the flood | (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings. |
| n. (quantity) | 2. deluge, flood, inundation, torrent | an overwhelming number or amount.; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" |
| ~ good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, mickle, mint, muckle, passel, peck, quite a little, slew, spate, tidy sum, batch, heap, mass, mountain, pile, plenty, raft, stack, wad, deal, flock, pot, mess, sight | (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent.; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" |
| n. (artifact) | 3. flood, flood lamp, floodlight, photoflood | light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography. |
| ~ light source, light | any device serving as a source of illumination.; "he stopped the car and turned off the lights" |
| ~ photographic equipment | equipment used by a photographer. |
| n. (act) | 4. flood, outpouring, overflow | a large flow. |
| ~ flow, stream | the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression. |
| ~ effusion | flow under pressure. |
| n. (act) | 5. flood, flowage | the act of flooding; filling to overflowing. |
| ~ filling | the act of filling something. |
| n. (event) | 6. flood, flood tide, rising tide | 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" |
| ~ tide | the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon. |
| v. (contact) | 7. deluge, flood, inundate, swamp | fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid.; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" |
| ~ fill, fill up, make full | make full, also in a metaphorical sense.; "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride" |
| v. (change) | 8. flood | cover with liquid, usually water.; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes" |
| ~ flow | cover or swamp with water. |
| ~ inundate, deluge, submerge | fill or cover completely, usually with water. |
| ~ spread over, cover | form a cover over.; "The grass covered the grave" |
| ~ drench, swamp | drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged.; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor" |
| v. (possession) | 9. flood, glut, oversupply | supply with an excess of.; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient" |
| ~ furnish, provide, supply, render | give something useful or necessary to.; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" |
| v. (change) | 10. flood | become filled to overflowing.; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains" |
| ~ fill, fill up | become full.; "The pool slowly filled with water"; "The theater filled up slowly" |
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