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Flood

noun

1.

The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land. Synonyms: alluvion, deluge, inundation.

2.

An overwhelming number or amount. Synonyms: deluge, inundation, torrent. "A torrent of abuse"

3.

Light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography. Synonyms: flood lamp, floodlight, photoflood.

4.

A large flow. Synonyms: outpouring, overflow.

5.

The act of flooding; filling to overflowing. Synonym: flowage.

6.

The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide). Synonyms: flood tide, rising tide. Antonym: ebbtide.

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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"Flood" Quotes from Famous Books

... supported on her knee, had grown to the thickness of half an inch. Only a few pages remained unread, half lifted on the other side, above which her ivory paper knife hung suspended. Clothed in a yellow gown and sitting in a flood of yellow light that radiated from the shaded lamp beside her, she presented an extraordinarily vivid picture against the brown panelling of the wall. Even in repose one divined the suppressed energy of the ...

— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins

... luminous orb laid a flaming pathway across the shimmering waters, and golden bars of light, like gleaming fingers outstretched, fell athwart the tall pines that towered on the high bluff back of the camp. The glorious sunshine, succeeding a flood of rosy color, inundated the scene; it bathed in a gorgeous radiance the early autumn woods, it illumined the bunkhouse, and another rude shanty known to the squad as the grub-shack, it poured down on old Hinky-Dink, the ancient negro cookee, setting ...

— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice

... one of the most beautiful forms of modern prose-fiction. Immermann wrote Der Oberhof in 1839. Weill and Auerbach took up the running in 1841 and 1843. George Sand followed, and Fritz Reuter. Bjoernson began to write in 1856. Synnoeve Solbakken and Arne came in on the high flood of this movement. "These two stories," writes Mr. Gosse, "seem to me to be almost perfect; they have an enchanting lyrical quality, without bitterness or passion, which I look for elsewhere in vain in the prose ...

— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... of 'your day' as if you telling the boys down at the corner store about the good times they all had before the Flood. You're one of the Younger Set and don't let me have to tell you again. Say, listen! You know that show you saw last night. The one where I was supported by a few underlings. Well, George wrote the music ...

— A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... was necessary to curtail some of our long-range plans for development of our natural resources, and to emphasize programs vital to the prosecution of the war. Work was suspended on a number of flood control and reclamation projects and on the development of our national forests and parks. This work must now be resumed, and new projects must be undertaken to provide essential services and to assist in ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Harry S. Truman • Harry S. Truman

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