flood Definition

flood
noun

1. An overflow of water from rivers, lakes or the sea on to dry land.

Thesaurus: deluge, surge, overflow, torrent, inundation, cataclysm, wave, high tide, flood tide, tidal flood, tidal flow; Antonym: drought, trickle.
2. Any overwhelming flow or quantity of something.

Thesaurus: abundance, plenty, bounty, multitude, glut, profusion, plethora, superfluity; Antonym: dearth.
3. The rising of the tide.
4. colloq
A floodlight.

verb flooded, flooding

1. To overflow or submerge (land) with water.

Thesaurus: drown, drench, immerse, soak, deluge, submerge, overflow, engulf, gush, overwhelm, inundate.
2. To fill something too full or to overflowing.
3. To force them to leave a building, etc because of floods.

Form: flood someone out (usually)
intr
4. To become flooded, especially frequently.
intr
5. To move in a great mass.

Example: Crowds were flooding through the gates
intr
6. To flow or surge.
intr
7. To bleed profusely from the uterus, eg sometimes after childbirth.
8. To supply (a market) with too much of a certain kind of commodity.
9. To supply (an engine) with too much petrol so that it cannot start.

Idiom: in flood

Overflowing.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon flod.