| VERB | contact | flood, deluge, inundate, swamp | fill quickly beyond capacity |
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| change | flood | cover with liquid / liquid, usually water | |
| possession | flood, oversupply, glut | supply with an excess of | |
| change | flood | become filled to overflowing | |
| NOUN | phenomenon | flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion | the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land |
| quantity | flood, inundation, deluge, torrent | an overwhelming number or amount | |
| artifact | flood, floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood | light that is a source / source of artificial illumination having a broad beam | |
| act | flood, overflow, outpouring | a large / large flow | |
| act | flood, flowage | the act of flooding | |
| event | flood, flood tide, rising tide | the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide) |
| Sounds | flah'd | |
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| Rhymes | abbreviated ... wounded: 365 rhymes with ahd... | |
| Meaning | The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land. | |
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| Synonyms | inundation, deluge, alluvion | |
| Narrower | Noah's flood, Noachian deluge, Noah and the Flood, the Flood | (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah |
| debacle | flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer | |
| flash flood, flashflood | A sudden local flood of great volume and short duration | |
| Broader | geological phenomenon | A natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth |
| Spanish | aluvión, avalancha, avenida, diluvio, inundación | |
| Catalan | diluvi, inundació | |
| Verbs | flood | cover with liquid / liquid, usually water |
| flood | become filled to overflowing | |
| flood | fill quickly beyond capacity | |
| Meaning | An overwhelming number or amount. | |
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| Example | "a flood of requests" | |
| Synonyms | inundation, deluge, torrent | |
| Broader | batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad | (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent |
| Spanish | diluvio, inundación | |
| Catalan | diluvi, inundació | |
| Verbs | flood | supply with an excess of |
| Meaning | light that is a source / source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography. | |
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| Synonyms | floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood | |
| Part of | photographic equipment | equipment used by a photographer |
| Broader | light, light source | Any device serving as a source of illumination |
| Spanish | foco | |
| Catalan | focus | |
| Meaning | A large / large flow. | |
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| Synonyms | overflow, outpouring | |
| Narrower | effusion | Flow under pressure |
| Broader | flow, stream | The act of flowing or streaming |
| Spanish | desbordamiento, inundación, riada | |
| Catalan | inundació, negament, revinguda, riada, riuada | |
| Meaning | The act of flooding; filling / filling / filling to overflowing. | |
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| Synonym | flowage | |
| Broader | filling | The act of filling something |
| Spanish | inundación | |
| Verbs | flood | become filled to overflowing |
| flood | fill quickly beyond capacity | |
| Meaning | The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide). | |
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| Example | "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune"-Shakespeare | |
| Synonyms | flood tide, rising tide | |
| Broader | tide | The periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon |
| Opposite | ebbtide | The tide while water is flowing out |
| Spanish | marea creciente | |
| Meaning | Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid / liquid. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something with something | |
| Example | "The images flooded his mind" | |
| Synonyms | deluge, inundate, swamp | |
| Broader | fill, fill up, make full | make full, also in a metaphorical sense |
| See also | flood in | arrive in great numbers |
| Spanish | inundar | |
| Catalan | inundar | |
| Nouns | flood | the act of flooding |
| flood | the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | |
| flooding | a technique used in behavior therapy | |
| Meaning | Cover with liquid / liquid, usually water. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Examples |
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| Narrower | flow | Cover or swamp with water |
| inundate, deluge, submerge | Fill or cover completely, usually with water | |
| swamp, drench | drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged | |
| Broader | cover, spread over | form a cover over |
| See also | flood out | charge someone with too many tasks |
| Spanish | anegar, inundar | |
| Catalan | desbordar-se, inundar, negar | |
| Nouns | flood | the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land |
| Meaning | Supply with an excess of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody with something | |
| Example | "flood the market with tennis shoes" | |
| Synonyms | oversupply, glut | |
| Broader | supply, provide, render, furnish | Give something useful or necessary to |
| Spanish | inundar | |
| Catalan | inundar | |
| Nouns | flood | an overwhelming number or amount |
| Meaning | Become filled to overflowing. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Example | "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains" | |
| Broader | fill, fill up | Become full |
| Spanish | inundarse, inundar | |
| Catalan | desbordar-se, inundar-se, inundar | |
| Nouns | flood | the act of flooding |
| flood | the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | |
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