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English to English noun
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the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land |  | Example: plains fertilized by annual inundations
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an overwhelming number or amount | | Example: a flood of requests
a torrent of abuse
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light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | | source: wordnet30
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a large flow | | source: wordnet30
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the act of flooding; filling to overflowing | | source: wordnet30
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the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide) | | Example: a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune
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A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation. | | source: webster1913 verb
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fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | | Example: the basement was inundated after the storm
The images flooded his mind
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cover with liquid, usually water | | Example: The swollen river flooded the village
The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes
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supply with an excess of | | Example: flood the market with tennis shoes
Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient
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become filled to overflowing | | Example: Our basement flooded during the heavy rains
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To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley. | | source: webster1913
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