[
UK
/flˈʌd/
]
[ US /ˈfɫəd/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫəd/ ]
NOUN
- light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
- the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
-
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
plains fertilized by annual inundations -
an overwhelming number or amount
a flood of requests
a torrent of abuse -
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 - a large flow
VERB
-
become filled to overflowing
Our basement flooded during the heavy rains -
fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
the basement was inundated after the storm
The images flooded his mind -
supply with an excess of
Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient
flood the market with tennis shoes -
cover with liquid, usually water
The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes
The swollen river flooded the village
How To Use flood In A Sentence
- The abrupt facies shift, bioturbation and cemented nature of the surfaces suggests that they represent marine flooding surfaces, formed during a rapid rise in relative sea level and/or a reduction in sediment supply.
- This is Marshgate Lane, a 100% non-residential slice of East London, one solitary road cutting across the flood plain of the River Lea.
- The Chief Inspector has suggested a complete overhaul of the good book, reducing it to a pacier 250 pages, a greater focus on “Floods and brimstone and other cool stuff” and a possible rewrite by Dan Brown to “Sex the whole thing up a bit.” Archive 2008-10-01
- It said the flood walls and embankments being proposed would vary in height between one and 1.8 metres and protect most of the village, including the A166, against a one in 100-year flooding event.
- On October 30, just as the flood waters were creeping up in Ryedale, she drove her Peugeot car through a deep puddle and stalled the engine.
- The bow ranks were flooded; the whole front of the anchorage was a wreck of sunken boats. A Fire Upon the Deep
- The area near the river is liable to flood.
- March 17, 2009 kathy a. said ... i'm pretty much with celeste. the flood of technology and information makes it absolutely important that students learn critical thinking skills, and how to search for the most reliable information. Did You Know?
- I passed plunging gorges, streams in spate, riverbanks ripped open, fields flooded, a brown soup drowning the track.
- Hand, Schryhart, Arneel, and Merrill, weighted with this inpouring flood of stock, which they had to take at two-twenty, hurried to their favorite banks, hypothecating vast quantities at one-fifty and over, and using the money so obtained to take care of the additional shares which they were compelled to buy. The Titan
