Flood

Pronunciation: flŭd

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.

A covenant never to destroy
The earth again by flood.

- Milton.

The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; - opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

- Shak.

A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.

Menstrual disharge; menses.

Flood anchor
(Naut.) , the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising.

Flood fence
a fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood.

Flood gate
a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate.

Flood mark
the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark.

Flood tide
the rising tide; - opposed to ebb tide.

The Flood
the deluge in the days of Noah.

v. t.

To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.

[imp. & p. p. Flooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Flooding.]

To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.

Noun	1.	flood - the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations" Synonyms: inundation, alluvion, deluge
	2.	flood - an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" Synonyms: deluge, inundation, torrent
	3.	flood - light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography Synonyms: flood lamp, floodlight, photoflood
	4.	flood - a large flow Synonyms: overflow, outpouring
	5.	flood - the act of flooding; filling to overflowing Synonyms: flowage
	6.	flood - the inward flow of the tide; "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare
Verb	1.	flood - fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" Synonyms: deluge, inundate, swamp
	2.	flood - cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
	3.	flood - supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient" Synonyms: oversupply, glut
	4.	flood - become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"

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