flood
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English flod, from Old English flōd, from Proto-West Germanic *flōdu, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from *plew- (“to flow”). Cognate with Scots flude, fluid, Saterland Frisian Floud, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish flod, Icelandic flóð, and Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus).
Inflected forms:
form: floods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: floud
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: floods
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flooding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flooded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flooded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: floud
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
pos: noun
examples: a covenant never to destroy the earth again by flood
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
China's Ministry of Water Resources Saturday warned that floods are expected to hit the country and called on relevant departments to make preparation.
Heavy rains have hit parts of southern, eastern and central China since Wednesday, pushing water levels in some rivers well above warning lines, the ministry said.
China entered its flood season on Saturday, four days earlier than previous years, and the country may suffer from more and stronger rain as well as floods with more extreme weather forecast for the flood season, the ministry warned.
gloss: A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: a flood of complaints
Deregulation of financial markets laid the groundwork for the subprime crisis in the United States, while a badly designed euro contributed to the debt crisis in Greece, and the Schengen system of open borders made it difficult to control the flood of refugees in Europe.
gloss: The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
pos: noun
examples: There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
It was ebb tide when she touched, and it was supposed that when the flood made she would float off again.
The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for us was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
gloss: A floodlight.
pos: noun
gloss: Menstrual discharge; menses.
pos: noun
gloss: Water as opposed to land.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Who beheld from the safe shore their floating carcasses and broken chariot-wheels. So thick bestrown, abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood, under amazement of their hideous change.
gloss: To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
pos: verb
examples: People flooded into the streets in protest.
The basement flooded with rainwater.
gloss: To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
pos: verb
examples: The floor was flooded with beer.
They flooded the room with sewage.
gloss: To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: The station's switchboard was flooded with listeners making complaints.
Blackburn offered nothing going forward in the opening period and that continued after the break, encouraging City to flood forward.
The iconic Glenfinnan Viaduct was flooded with blue light to show support for the National Health Service staff treating Coronavirus patients.
gloss: To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
ambitransitive
examples: There's also a spam filter in the code now, so if someone attempts to flood people's screens with macros or a bot, everything after the first few lines is thrown away.
gloss: To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
pos: verb
Antonyms: drain
Related words: deluge
diversion
inundation
sheetwash
torrent
barrage
dump
gush
hail
heap
inundate
pour
rain
shower
stream
swamp
Derived words: 100-year flood
antiflood
flash flood
floodage
flood basalt
floodboard
flood chute
flood fill
floodflow
flood frosting
floodful
floodgate
flood gate
flood-gate
flood geology
floodgum
flood-hit
flood icing
floodland
floodless
floodlet
floodlike
flood map
floodmark
flood meadow
floodometer
flood pants
floodplain
flood plain
flood plain toadlet
flood pool
flood-prone
floodprone
floodproof
flood stage
flood test
flood tide
floodtime
floodwall
floodwater
flood water
floodway
floody
fore-flood
glacial lake outburst flood
inflood
in floods
Japanese flood fever
landflood
mana flood
megaflood
mud flood
nonflood
outburst flood
photoflood
postflood
preflood
rat flood
send the flood
sheet flood
sky-flood
superflood
tidal flood
waterflood
Zanclean flood
floodlamp
floodlight
upflood
beflood
counterflood
crapflood
downflood
floodable
flooder
flood out
flood the zone
overflood
reflood
shitflood
unflood
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