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Flooded   /flˈədəd/  /flˈədɪd/   Listen
Flooded

adjective
1.
Covered with water.  Synonyms: afloat, awash, inundated, overflowing.  "The monsoon left the whole place awash" , "A flooded bathroom" , "Inundated farmlands" , "An overflowing tub"


Flood

verb
(past & past part. flooded; pres. part. flooding)
1.
Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid.  Synonyms: deluge, inundate, swamp.  "The images flooded his mind"
2.
Cover with liquid, usually water.  "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
3.
Supply with an excess of.  Synonyms: glut, oversupply.  "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
4.
Become filled to overflowing.



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"Flooded" Quotes from Famous Books



... only Government in my recollection which has made arrogance in asking almost a necessary stage in negotiation, they had been present for a long time—beyond Mr. Smillie's wild proposals of direct action, beyond the Yorkshire miners and the flooded coalfields; back to the day when electricians refused to light the Albert Hall, and Merchant Seamen refused passage to some politician or another because they didn't like his politics. One and each of those direct ...
— In a Green Shade - A Country Commentary • Maurice Hewlett
... slowly, as if reluctant to injure its beautiful shores; but as they were mostly low and gradually sloping, it was not long before the water had flooded several acres of land, and that was enough to create ...
— The Wonderful Adventures of Nils • Selma Lagerlof
... the pampas. At the other end of the world, in their vast flooded pastures, so different from our scanty greenswards, they follow, without notable variations, the same methods as their colleagues in Provence. A profound change of surroundings in no way effects the fundamental ...
— The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles • Jean Henri Fabre
... costly gems To make its crown; from mountain-peak to peak The brightness spread, and darkness slunk away, Until between two giant mountain-tops Glittered a wedge of gold; the hills were tinged, And soon the sun flooded the world with light As when the darkness heard that first command: "Let there be light!" and light from chaos shone. Raptured he gazed upon the glorious scene. "And can it be," he said, "with floods of light ...
— The Dawn and the Day • Henry Thayer Niles
... a dozen steps more, then brought to a halt. The blindfolding fabric was roughly stripped from his head. For a moment he blinked dazedly, half-blinded by a glare of blue light that flooded ...
— Devil Crystals of Arret • Hal K. Wells


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