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UK
/flˈʌd/
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[ 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
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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
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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.
- 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
- 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
- What if a hijacked plane hit a nuclear power plant, what if bioterrorists infected burger bars, what if we were flooded with smallpox?
- About 7 o'clock tonight, we had a whopping great thunderstorm with accompanying light show, and the flipping garage got flooded again!
- It floods the car with light and on a hot day there's a button that can turn it from transparent to opaque. Times, Sunday Times
- The birds occupy a range of wetland habitats: lakes, rivers, reedbeds, sedge fens, marsh dykes, ponds, flooded gravel pits and meres.
- inward flood of capital
- Some of these isolated populations are subject to predation, others to starvation, flooding, severe winters or summer drought.